Awakening

In the instant after I died
I was a bright fairy in a lush wood;
yawning, stretching out the anxiety
of a most troublesome dream.

Jay Sturner is a poet, fiction writer, and naturalist from the Chicago suburbs. His writing has appeared in such publications as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Space & Time, and Spectral Realms, among others.

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