semi insomniacs’ site

I toss and turn in twisted sheets

to find at the foot of my bed

my feet – either freezing cold

or burning.

How can there be

sweat in my pits

yet my thighs are ice?

Bones so cold inside my body

but exterior skin and flesh-

sweating.

Inside of vagina is so dry

that there was a tear –

not a salty drop from my eye,

but a rip of skin,

then infection-

one UTI after another.

I spent Thanksgiving of 2022

in the ICU with sepsis.

What was I thankful for?

That I did live to tell you.