vaccine carousel 

manifestation journal: i am free
of disease. we call the plumber
& he takes the house away in 
a little red wagon. in the morning
i search for possums. i plan to follow them
into their hollows. i am ready for my
marsupial phase. possums can't get rabies
which is exciting. one less worry
to carry into the sunlight. i am hoping
that one day people will remember me
as soft & bright. you can control a lot more
& a lot less than you think you can.
once, i squeezed my fist & brought 
the moon closer. i used to be on live radio
as a teenager. we would talk to adults
who had little snakes in their wallets.
my dad carries a picture of me
as a little girl in his wallet. i have seen him
put it on his tongue. how it survives,
i do not know. likewise with me. 
the drowning. the moon. always the moon.
poets & the moon. in a dream last night
we were trespassing. we were ordering soft serve
for only a dollar (impossible). next year
at the beach i think i'll go in the water. 
i think i'll try ocean mammal life. the first
time i went i had this wild thought,
"what if i'm a sea witch." obviously that is
impossible. i do not live by the sea so i am
instead a witch of whichever tree is closest to me.
i have conversations with the cedar near the front
of the yard. she has the most spiders 
compared to the other trees. every once 
in awhile one will dangle down to tell me
a secret. i usually already know it.
"your sibling is a bird today." i leave out
sunflower seeds for her. drive to the pharmacy
where everyone gets to be a cow. get any needles
i can & spend the rest of the day with the bugs.