Friday, April 17, 2015

I Want to Sleep Awhile

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I want to sleep the dream of Mayapples

to withdraw from the moon

that works before dawn

with a serpent's mouth

I want to sleep until Venus

rises in the trees

but you must know that i

am the porous friend

of the West wind for

I want to sleep the dream of Mayapples

and be cleansed by the earth.









—after Lorca