She Runs in Her Dreams
Martin Pedersen
She wakes up all sweaty
Her leg muscles hard
Her first steps shaky
She runs in her dreams.
Crossing whole continents
Over mountains and farms
Toward a white line vanishing
She runs in her dreams.
North South East West
She moves always alone
Always tired, out of breath
She runs in her dreams.
She’ll start with a cane
Then lean on a walker
A motor-chair for the lame
She runs in her dreams.
E. Martin Pedersen, originally from San Francisco, has lived for 40 years in eastern Sicily where he teaches English at the local university. His poetry has appeared most recently in Ginosko Literary Journal, Abstract Magazine, Neologism Poetry Journal, Poesis, Thirteen Myna Birds. Martin is an alum of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. His collection of haiku, Bitter Pills, has just come out.
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