Fiona Sinclair is the editor of the on line poetry magazine Message in a Bottle. Her seventh collection Slow Burner was published by Smokestack in August 2018

Fiona Sinclair

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Evanescence

You claim not to dream.
But I know some nights,
during REMs anarchy,
your body jolts as if defibrillated,
your whimpers chill more than screams.
I do not wake you; in case you remember.