Sleep Journal

The story that needs to be told
is the one recited in his sleep. 
He wants to carry it into the day
but its words won’t wake with him. 

Now when he speaks, it sounds
like a cracked bell, and the doors
he opens ache on their hinges,
an echo diminishing, the trace 

of a road erased from a map. 
When he asks for directions, 
they always lead to where the rain
drives its nails into the ground.

MATTHEW MOORE

Matthew Moore is a playwright and poet originally from New England. Their work has been produced at the Toronto Fringe Festival, the Boston Theater Marathon, Two Oceans Theater, Durango Arts, and the Fresh Fruit Festival. Their play Portugal was published in The Coachella Review.