Flee dream-doom over the skyscraper roof to rim. Balk at the brink. Leap to glass twin! Roof run. Again, again! Air-gulfs swim. Cross downtown. Vault up, hop down, skirt skylights, leap again, shocked at my own surety and strength. Near-flight! One gap looms too vast to span. I know the knack to shrink or grow-- and if I'm sparrow-small, I'll fall unharmed 200 yards to pave below! The cube-square law'll ease the blow on twig-joints; the drag on my skin slow me to mere rain-amble, not pain's anvil. So I dare dive abyss of light. Chant, shrink rat-small. Less? But as my flesh dwindles, terror grows. Gyrfalcons nest the tower! Talons, beaks avid to devour doll-size gory me. In two. Yet if I grow, bones break Below. Think! Waffle from cricket to cat to vole-- fly/fall. But no hawk stoops. Clear why! What fool'd take A pulsing thing? I spell trouble on the wing--may pack uncanny sting. So I dare to shrink and snow-flurry soft to earth, and think "I sure worry--WAY too much!", and, chided, wake.

• Nightmare of being hunted: I'm having fever, chills, hot flashes, and adrenaline rushes (recurring infection, still undiagnosed). My adrenaline-fueled pounding heart gives me what I call weakmares--exercise or chase scenes without a nightmare's fear, in which I keep my head and reason out a solution. Here I change size to slow my fall, then realize no sane hawk'll attack me while I show size-changing magic.
• Fatal fall yet land safely: during attacks I lose coordination and break things. Today, I dropped my favorite mug. But miraculously it landed in a bed of crushed paper in the recycling bin--anywhere else in the kitchen it'd have shattered. In the dream the mug is me.
• So what's it mean? Even a feverdream can bear an existential message--this one sure does. "I worry too much!" Notice how my worrying generates its own solution, too. I waffle, and that very indecision makes my size oscillate, warning off predators, letting me shrink enough to land gently.

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