Enduring Bones Halloween Challenge #3
Sometimes I wake up in my dining
and sometimes I wake up
in the attic
a few days later I might wake up in the basement and on that same day
it’s possible I will wake up under the kitchen window
where the earth is soft because the rain gutter gave way years ago
and that entire patch of ground is a soupy mess even in the Summer.
Sometimes I fall asleep in the little space behind the bathroom wall
where the medicine cabinet used to hang over the sink.
But no matter where I wake up and where I fall asleep
all of those parts of me
that the rats and mice and feral cats have dragged from floor to floor
in my dead and empty house
you can hear me crying out, after I’ve had a bad dream
about that night my husband came home and smothered me in my sleep
and them ran away with his girlfriend with the nicotine stained finger tips
you can hear me crying in despair and rage
from everywhere.