Self-Made Visions (A Poem)

By Joyce Jacobo Do you ever tell yourself stories at night? There            curled within the bedcovers        safe behind the darkness of closed eyes                     …do you imagine scenes to build a bridge                             between the waking world                                                       and dreamland? Simple tales            perhaps       of remembered places from childhood                   that you might visualize

Journal Entry #9

Goodness, I have to admit that nerves and anxiety over all the things I’d like to accomplish over the coming weeks have been draining. That, on top of various family issues, left me so exhausted that I spent most of today stretched out on my bed–drifting in and out of sleep. The interesting thing is