Doll Crimes
It’s like in my dreams, nothing that might have walls exists.
My mother’s right. Home for us doesn’t have to be a fixed place. I find it in slots of time, in slants of light. I feel it closest at dawn, when night and day meld and mingle a while before they drift apart. Home for me is my head in my mother’s lap, and those dreamscapes I see before I’m all the way awake. My jacket wrapped tight around me and my boots up on the seats. The tastes of toothpaste and coffee cloudy on the back of my tongue, the soft sweep of my mother’s fingers sliding through my hair. It’s me knowing, I can sleep a while longer. Thinking, I don’t have to open my eyes just yet.
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