at_night
otterpup i smell damp
in the walls
and i have to lie on my right side
so my nose doesn't choke on the mould

and i have to turn my light on again once it's gone out
ride the waves of sleep and awake at least twice before i give up

but sleep is coming again
and i wonder if i like that really
what is sleep other than wasting life really anyway?
ahh, but we need it to live
catch 22

and the room reminds me of the one i grew up in
and i'm strangely home again
this could be the beginning of a wonderful friendship

and she sails the walls of the inside of her brain
and the walls around her sail the boundaries of her world
and her dreams are coloured blue
and her words grow real

breath goes in and breath comes out
and i find i have to pay less attention each time it happens
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werewolf and the night on all sides without sides
is damningly vast
and so indifferent as to make
one beg and resent
in one same dark-wine laden question -
is it right to feel
so heavy and inconsequential -

inconsequential-
the night as a abstract noun,
as in the other night -
at a distance our mind retains

heavy-
and the night as in drowning, the womb, the black death,
crying and discussing
in rooms that line it like
honeycombs and catacombs
as liminal as stars -
the nearness the mind has no means to divorce itself of.

one dark-wine laden question
among a sea of the like,
the tarry sweltering lungs
that breath in the entire sky
while most sleep -

what is this night, where does it go when it goes?
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whitechocolatewalrus she_wishes 050213
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