emergency

to sleep as a fist
grieves, shrinking light

to sleep as a high diver
falls (balsa wood kite)

lullaby

go to sleep little radio
little turtle, little shell
shine in yr sleep & gleam
little bomb, little song
yr time has come to listen
yr time has come to fall
come yr babies, yr cradles

all due dispatch

ma'am, i will not sleep well. i am sorry for making of myself a killing machine. at home i promise to drink Budweiser and have trouble getting it up. improvisation or overthinking. there is a store sign here in English which is mostly for us Marines. there are weeks of boredom and improvised signs and then moments of terror we sleep through. the locals buy fruits from outdoor stands. if you'll get up and come with me we'll see the construction. i love my wife and imagine cheating, i imagine she cheats. the high city is the direction the artillery thumps. double back. we don't pray for death but forget to avoid it. some welcome ourselves.

lullaby

& good night & sweet
moon & put yr dream
out & sleep moon & good
light & put the night
out & slip light & sweet
tight & sleep kite

should moon, should glide
should lend, should flight

as we sleep power is restored

text ex anight sliverer

reroyalized encurrently

lycanthrope unwick goes

oesophagi anticlampened

inedge adjoining vortex

pulling in to White Sulphur Springs

so long since
i sat
awaiting vast
space between
vast
stars the day
i imagine hope
will arrive i
came to
sleep

nostalgia

high stretched 
starward hands 

this air feted
so i, await

ing space, 
vast stars             i will 

come sleep
at years 

to constellations 
one star to 

with turn-
ed kid-time

coats 
let each
 
ring                   be 
the awakened

too many at night

asleep in his tent
on his clot, the
soldier, his knife
sleep, sweet his dears
but drops &
stars, those stars
who're out &
crashing, punched thru
an apology.

lullaby

are you sleep yet
closen eyes and
dream our you

darken father
belly rub and
starry say

fencing post and
blurring gallop
horsen down

feather moon
curlen bug
okay

we will have a summer vacation

o goodbye o good
life the stent
of our arms o pack
the ties with
stains like stripes
the drip o sleep

science fiction

slice of pie, sleep
& star chart. the percentage a
circumference portfolio,
the empty space a
person was meant to
fit. bed, coffin,
hibernation chamber,
he was used to breathing
numbers, oxygenated
fluids, some days his
body functioning like
a syringe, penance
and propriety.

whole

broken tea pot, emerging dirt
tender to bury, tendency for soil
to seep up, sleep in the cracks

the gate takes away, takes again

placed.

the washed. watch. wallet. we longed for the mist.

cover the white walls that you sleep in. shore. pairs of photons.

arcs in the ceiling. under an upturned boat.

the moonorgan. the mind. lux orbis. etc.

after bernstein

the lie is okay
the lie is attack
the lie is stabilized
the lie is economic
the lie is sleep
the lie is shopping
the lie is no
the lie is technology
the lie is flag
the lie is home
the lie is drug
the lie is dead
the lie is vegetal
the lie is jacket
the lie is service
the lie is making
the lie is rain
the lie is poetry