daymare

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daymare
God made the world round so we can’t see too far ahead. 
—Isak Dineson, Out of Africa

this mind’s flaw— 
chewing 
on hypotheticals filled
with night-and-daymares
an unsafe place—
a sucking 
vortex, 
insidious, strong 
hard to resist
yet I’ve learned
to catch the draw,
most times, turn
away back to this—
sun creeping 
down redwoods 
at dawn
awakening the dew