Dream (I)

by Travis Kurowski

I had a dream of mercury.
I dreamed the ocean.
I dreamed I told this to people there and they laughed, covering themselves in blue and white
     umbrellas.
I dreamed repetition.
I dreamed friends dying and dying and dying.
I dreamed lovers returning in saltwater and silence.
I dreamed coolness.
I dreamed myself.
I dreamed disease.

Travis Kurowski's work has recently appeared in Kill Author and Hobart and is forthcoming in The Lumberyard.