Wait lifter

Where I have sometimes
pled with pronounced pain,
head nestled in a pillow,

I find myself
Now
heaving
and overcome-
weeping with joy
at the alignment,

at how far
these things travel
and come back around.

And I levitate
the world-

at least it feels this way

in the middle.



Image of art installation Title: Levitated Mass by artist Michael Heizer at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Lay me down

A head on pillow

hits the bed

again

and I confess it is useless

that I pray without membership

all men taste like forbidden fruit

so some nights I try just a little lullaby 

words work as stuffing say, softer,

consoling, comforting to tuck in tight,

granting the priceless gift of deep sleep

and hibernating potential 

in the conversation of dreams

possibly something snuggled 

warm with want

lays a head. 

Artwork by Jules Pascin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.