Tagged: sleep
What Are You Entitled To?
Read me a bed time story from end to beginning how the last time anyone ever Said “shine” and then fade was before the book was slammed closed higher octaves, lower tolerance better skin,...
Under the Surface
Poem Under my covers Dreaming of things I have never seen Tossing and turning Wandering and wondering Until that time I woke From the black and white to a place full of colour...
A Jet Lag of Lands
Poem it has been thrown over various borders and held by many hands while trying to listen to the sound of sleep sleep my darling, close your eyes sleep my moon, high in the...
Her Infirmity is My Insomnia
Haibun I wake up at four in the morning. Try and sleep again. Mira coughs, inhales hard. Coughs again. She gets up and sprays her nostrils with her over-the-counter spray. I listen to her....
That Morning Reluctance
Haibun Didn’t want to rise. Turned off the clock and rolled over. A half-sleep doze and I’m up. Don’t want to go; drag my body and mind and stay at the table watching dawn...
Sleep Birds
Poem The sleep tugs at my eyes, Like whirring black birds Pulling at the corners of sheets. There is one hole in the stone wall, Through which I look and see: A solitary...
