Thursday, June 17, 2010

sleep

it's heavy--
a little like dreaming,
and a little like death.

but it's warm
as tiny little cats
curling up and
falling asleep
on my eyelids.

and it's slow.
slow as molasses running
down my body
from my head to my shoulders
and along every limb
until

I am engulfed by it.

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