Watching You Sleep

Watching You Sleep Poems

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Watching You Sleep Then, the cool kindliness of sheets that soon smooth away trouble… ~Rupert Brooke,

Silence

silence settles around the dress left on the floor seeps into the sheets making them damp incense smoke rises.

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Falling

Your lips barely moving “What is it you say under your breath?” fine twitches run the length of your body displacing certain shadows.

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Open Window The small proboscis of a night insect penetrates your skin; supple moist yielding the tiny drop of red making your skin whiter

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Eyes heavy

Dozing off to sleep my mouth finds your areola

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Sleeping Like two crescent moons spooning

a sleeping mudra1

breath of night through an open window linen drapes flutter two prayer flags—

“What is it that you pray for?”

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motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling

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Open window 2 gentle warm rain

blue gray incense smoke ascends swirls —

Night blossoms

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Dawn In the purple ribbon of bird song a dragonfly drinks dew from prayers inscribed on the temple bell — awakened you and I face to face the first smile of the first day of the first day of this reborn world.

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