Fever Dream
The tent in Fever Dream is either unreachable or inescapable. The objects and places in my fever dreams have terrible beauty, luster, and glow. In and out of waking, the imagery repeats, while my body is too heavy to lift. This tent in the trees beckons as an escape, a territory of independence like that of The Baron in the Trees (Italo Calvino), but with a female protagonist. I am a baroness in the trees, where none question my authority. This body burns from the inside out, where blue flame is the hottest. Thrown into inaction, I am no Hamlet, as I welcome the dreams that come.