What is it? What does it want? / Photos by the author

The Can’t-Sleep-Koan

What is that odd glowing creature staring at me in the middle of the night?

Slowly regaining the surface I lay very still. Two glowing red eyes under some kind of three-pronged headgear with a sternly straight mouth. And what is that under the mouth? Or…wait. Is it a mouth? Maybe it’s a mustache. Whatever it is, the gaze is unwavering. Unsettling.