reduction

Leave it on.

Lowest brightness, moderate volume, sounds just distant enough.

Turn the hue to the night mode. Dark, slice of yellowish warmth.

Naked.

Turn to the other side, I’m never a side sleeper. But it helps, for the reduction.

Kindle’s lighted up, the page staring back. Eyes closed, with the smell, imaginations.

Wondering what A.M. would be a nightmare woke up. Or straight to the morning for the notifications.

Repeat. Memory’s flushing.