Thursday, September 23, 2004

Can't sleep

Can't sleep tonight and I have to be up and out the door in the morning to teach 4th grade. Today I was a substitute special ed teacher. It seems the house is too quiet. No babies sleeping beside me. Can't seem to settle on what to read. I need a serious book store visit, I guess. I could just stack the books I have here that are unread and pretend I am in a bookstore. I could pay with shekels like Kristin and Elizabeth use when they play bookstore. Maybe poems would calm me, maybe I should write one. Some thoughts:

unable to sleep

stretched arteries

clots of blood

that pain in my chest

shhhhh

shade trees

lop-sided failing to shelter/shield

letting in unwanted spirits

fear

shhhhh

'night

No need for fear. Sleep now.

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