the grad student with nightmares
with thanks to the Wednesday Poetswe watched him come to realize
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what he'd been reading
horror
was affecting his writing
not only
but his whole person
his waking and his sleeping
his perspective
his light, out
his gaze, down
his joy, diminished
to the point of giving up
almost
so he told us
and we listened
and he threw away the book
and he stopped watching the movie
and he turned his gaze in a new direction
his perspective shifted
his light, began to glow
like a slow kindling fire
and he woke anew
and wondering...
