Monday, January 30, 2023

Sleep

 Sometimes I will curl to slumber

Into the timeless fetal comma

Our cells remember

Swaddled in darkness. 


Should a finger of my slack hand

Touching my clavicle,

The knurl of my shoulder joint; 

I am suddenly a Neolithic grave-

All ochre bones, 

dried flowers, 

Stone tools. 

Nested in the womb of the earth;

dreaming.