i almost decide to roll away
from your oven
body
sweat dripping down
your back despite
the cool breeze lapping
through our window

almost

then adjust the pillow
and spoon into
the fever with you
allowing you to rise
up out of your dreams
into a mumbled reality
to tell me that the house
is burning and that you
can't seem to put it out

bedfore drifting back
into the rancid eye metaphor
for something that must feel
true to affect the body
as lucidly as this nightmare
switches on your sweat



copyright L Greeff 2004
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