Sleepy

 

                                      In the blur

y

         entrance to sleep

                                           y tea

time

                   nap

                                   appy time

curl

                   of jet, curve

                                                of childvoice

delicious

                      the for

                                       bidden sleep of cots

facing the wall

                             so far from tea

                                                            cups

clatter of form

                               al aft

                                                ernoon

someone     

                       enters napsleepy

                                                           time, some

one unfor

                        mal from

                                              afar far

from imminent

teacups

as jetzoom

                         curves the after

                                                        noon

and the ear

                         tumbles toward

                                                          playground schisms

enamored unnannied

                                          sleep comes bid

                                                                             den

sleeper turn

                             ing facing

                                                     the wall, sleep

of a single

                        pallet in blur

                                                     y

chiaroscuro, flecked

                                       with light

                                                             of a gong

hunkered, the enter

                                      er, twitime napappy syll

ables on

                        androgyne lips

                                                           and bends shroud

ed

                   in many veils to kiss

                                                           the placid forehead

but the sleeper: dis

                                     corporeal,

                                                           dislodged

from the blur

y          sleepeepy

time,

                   detached from lips and

                                                               shrouds, transported

to a fluid

                     unmoored universe

                                                          of playground and sky

writing, swiss

                             knives and sly

                                                           giraffes

in the dream

                             of the

                                         for

                                                 bid

                                                           den

                                                                     bid

                                                                                en

sleepytea

                                      time.

 

 
     
 

 

Stanley Nelson