Self Portrait as Titania in Hypnopompic Bower
Dayna Patterson
in morning’s fuzzlight
grasp at the tail of a midsummer dream
as it tries to slip
out
the door
of thought
and feel palms to fingers silt soft
or strange slime
or spiny scrape or slick scales
or whisker scritch or sussurate skin or silk feathers
as it runs
crinkum-crankum
funs
flies
flees
floats
flits away
tailspin
caboose
warm
slobber
bottle
of good
sweet
hay
Dayna Patterson is an MFA candidate at Western Washington University and Managing Editor of Bellingham Review. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in North American Review, REAL, and Weave, among others. She is Poetry Editor for Psaltery & Lyre, and her chapbooks, Loose Threads and Mothering, are available from Flutter Press. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two daughters.