House of Sleep
By: Mark Blackford
I have built
around this house
a fence
of chain-link dreamcatchers
& still, we wake
to find bolt cutters
at the base of his bed;
our son, eyes closed,
hands clawing;
crying out for the father
he loses every night.
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Mark was born and raised in Monticello, NY. He received a B.A. in English from Valdosta State University (GA, 2010), and presently he resides and writes in Woodridge, NY with his wife and children.