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BROKEN SLEEP
At midnight, I'm still awake,
waiting on sleep’s blurred
hypnagogic state,
a fleeting mirage like journey
crossing at nightfall.
I stretch to cut the bed diagonally,
her legs retract unconscious
beneath her folded sleeping body.
A knot of blue sky fills my gut,
a worryglow from earlier, flittering
like a young fish
I sit up, anchored at the bed’s edge,
...Thursday 30th May 2024 8:10 pm
sleep paralysis III (01/03/2023)
if I stare at the roof long enough
would i let it's ink
roll down over me ?
my shape, pliant and waiting and
rutting
tilting toward the certainty
the cooing touch and strain
spreading stygian weight
pressing down, down, and do...wn
coy and waiting with glistening teeth
brushing, roiling voice
weight like a purring cinderblock
hands, too many to be real
too deft to be human
...
Friday 5th January 2024 3:14 pm
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