On SleepThere is always too little. The tea-stained tablecloth creases
where my hand rests. My head wilts. I sit and sit (my body grows over the hide of the chair). To me, it seems the body knows what it is to forget. Aroma of apple and figs and a memory draw blush from my cheek. Not unlike the time I watched the wind going and going, and taking with it bellyfuls of millet. My mother in the other room is stirring a saucepan, making round sounds. I lived unaware of how the stunning bird offered herself to the bluff. Her milk-wings, umbrellas, folding. On my left, a breeze drums the padlock. The fruits roll onto their softened sides. I hear booted mudfeet at the door. Ants cross water. The knives tune themselves. The jug (open with its handle bent on its high hip wants to say something about seeing truth). I am sick in my own way.
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