This is a dream: I reach up a hand to the left side of my neck and feel a body burrowing there—a leech I extract with my fingers. Since it is a dream,I don't recoil from the soft squishiness of this bodythat wants something from me so badly, it clings…  | By Luisa A. Igloria on August 26, 2024 | This is a dream: I reach up a hand to the left
side of my neck and feel a body burrowing there—
a leech I extract with my fingers. Since it is a dream,
I don't recoil from the soft squishiness of this body
that wants something from me so badly, it clings
with its whole mouth.
This is not a dream:
I could give blood, but my liver harbors
a disease that has taken over my whole
network of distribution.
Back in the dream, I pull
but something is left behind, tenacious as desire.
I barely feel it, since I can't remember when it first
found me, and somehow found me hospitable.
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