Proof of Life

Today was the shortest distance
between the night's terrors

and unshadowed fields; the opposite 
of prophecy, the unpredictability

of interior climate. For instance, if you 
dream that it is snowing dandelion tufts

in midsummer, by nightfall
they will have turned to fireflies.

For instance, if you dream a script
of flies rising from the drain,

scrub the sinks until they smell as blue as 
glass, as green as spider plants in pots.