Andy Young
Night Terror
night terror
open-eyed though open-eyed
I cannot see it
another tongue
back together
with tape what tape
a wailing a wailing
I grew them, breath braiding
limbs thickening
and must have
grown this too
or maybe I am just
a tunnel back
into the communal horror
Andy Young reads “Night Terror”
Andy Young is the author of four chapbooks, including John Swenson Dynamicron (Dancing Girl Press, 2019) and a full-length poetry collection, All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014). She teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Southern Review, Pank, and The Journal of the American Medical Association.