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Subject: Dream Again

Author:
Heartstarter

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Date Posted: 14:30:10 10/06/01 Sat
Author Host/IP: spider-tn064.proxy.aol.com/152.163.207.74

Dream again.
Monsters free the closet,
nightscapes escape,
anxious flutters at
forgotten sills.

Minds eye snaps open,
sleep-jerked, jittering,
puddled in dread.
There, realized;
fear shifts at the foot
of a bed, sniffing,
searching.
Drawing near, undefined,
shaded unease.
It passed slick tongue
over drip-heavy lips,
drooled acrid spit that
hissed unseen secrets.

Temples pulsed,
rhythmic dread climbs a scale,
frantic taps beneath
trapped pelt, jagged notes
crescendo in an black arabesque.
Dark orus descends,
suckles raw nipples,
slaverous pulls of
terror-stoned rock slice
bloody troughs in rough muscle.
Sharp fingers of shock
snare bared bowel,
drag hard ripples of fright
beneath quivering gut,
tense, tight.
Angled shapes seize,
force frozen roots wide,
dip up dead, cold sweat
with razored tongue.
Opened like a bride,
rational panic rides irrational
madness, thrusting pistons
rip reality until obsession's
fervid surge steams hot on slack lips.

Dream again.
Monsters loose, free the asylum.
They slip in shadow,
smooth, silent;
feeding on rinds of stolen fruit,
spitting seeds at the watching moon.

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