Semiotic Drift

019 · Dream

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A woman shows me how to use a neti pot.1 The salt water stings. My vision blurs. When everything comes back into focus, I say, ‘Disappear into those Eastern European eyes.’ I see Karabo.2 She sits in the back of my mother’s Ford Capri. She coughs stars and hides them under the seat.

  1. A neti pot is a small, usually teapot-shaped vessel used to rinse the nasal passages with saline solution.↩

  2. Karabo Mokoena was a 22-year-old South African woman murdered by her former boyfriend in 2017. Her image recurs in my dreams.↩