Sleepless
by Derek Hugen
In those deep blue perpendicular nights
Of slumber without slumber,
Acknowledging the passage of time
In twenty minute increments,
and
In those swirling nights
Of thoughts like sheep,
jumping,
jumping,
jumping,
and
In those dark rotisserie nights,
staggering through my dreams,
I awaken into my sleep,
And cannot tell a lie from truth. . . |