I trembled as the metal pterodactyl bobbed and struck.
I watched screams being buried under courthouse trees.
I put ear to wall, and heard the hive’s heart humming.
Baffled, I turned to my mother
and stared into her red sunglasses
reflecting molten-glass apocalypses.
I opened my monitor and writhed inside.
I fragmented in parking lots across the divided states of hallucination.
Then winter wrapped white sheets around my face,
and reality’s severed legs inched back to its corpse,
and I slammed
into the absolute truth
of the floor