A Dream Within a Dream Dreaming

How much repetition

before we loop back

to originality?

You finally released

the locking sphenoid

that kept me clenched

to your ghost;

apnea aside

I rest easy now.

Now

I easily rest

aside apnea

and she smothers

me seldomly.

Sometimes

I can’t breathe

when I’m asleep

and I awake violently

to snakes and hornets

on my pillowcase.

I dislocate my shoulder

fending them off

before I awake

again

beside myself.