59. A rare nightmare makes the rare scare, scarier.

In a house of peaceful sleepers –

A scream from a dream –

Bloodcurdling.

My dream:

I wake, afraid, needing Mum’s comfort.

(Sleep?)walking from our room to Mum’s, outside the bathroom

Stood an Alsatian – exaggerated, silent, menacing –

A rare scare

head turns, stares, bares teeth.

I scream, then really wake.

Or …

Really wake, then scream.

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