Eating in Bed

1) Oven

the oven is a foreign object
littering my kitchen's space

I have nightmares of my oven
opening itself mouthlike speaking

food expunged from its maw
dripping on my cabinets

and deep in the back
beyond my sight rattling sounds:

my inability to suffice
independently

2) Convenience Store

late at night a depressed wind
rustled with rain and leaves

its not quite hunger
but something lacks

and sleep incanted
swells and decays

like a feigned blink

put the dog on a leash
I need to go buy something

3) Dreams

I don't dream of food
but my dreams know
what I ate

last night I dreamt
in sordid colors

these lives touching me
just enough to retreat
and fade like Autumn

so far away

I went to bed hungry
like the night before