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9 dreams

I feel as though I’ve dreamed / something terrible, but I don’t remember / what.
Illustration by Kat Morgan

for Marina Ruiz Rodríguez

1
I hide my sanity in a clay vase.
when I snore
only its broken rhythm remains.

2 as a child, I repeated the same dream: 20 centimeters from my face sharp little came alive, a single-line drawing. I always wanted to touch them with my fingertips but the edge of their body was a knife and I bled.

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