Dream

By Marceline Jenkins

In my dreams we’re both boys 
We’re treated the same 
We’re loved 
Most importantly you’re loved 
In my dreams we’re in the old house 
With the scary basement and the red couch 
The grass is singing somewhere outside 
But we stay planted to the screen ahead 
Minecraft 
When nature is silent
Your race car bed tows my princess bed 
And we drive into the city 
All of the Lights by Kanye West is playing 
The glass squares on the building bounce fluorescent light off each other 
Like a conversation
’Til it eventually hits the street
But we’re long gone
In my dreams we never fight 
Unless it’s the candy demons or spiders
Or the things we don’t talk about
My shadow always holds your shadow’s hand 
When their shifts are over they go back to their shadow  families and sit down with their shadow wives at dinner 
and she asks 
How was work
And our shadows say as if connected by moonlight or subconscious hallucination 
It’s always a good day with my brother 
I don’t miss childhood, I miss being young with you