INSOMNIA

by Beverly Jackson

 

When new to the world, you sleep like a baby
and languish in beds, entwined like eels
as youth and love hold you spent.
Sleep gradually falls away
like beauty, and lust, and hope--

there's a narrowing down in life,
less patience for lies,
less interest in fluff
but as it all skinnies up,
the darkness of night
seems to lengthen,

the realm of possibilities broadens
and the entire universe of death
is born like a new world
just behind eyes
that will not stay shut.

  

BEVERLY JACKSON is a poet, fiction writer, editor and publisher who lives in Blue Lake, California. Her work can be seen in Melic Review, Pindeldyboz, In Posse, Night Train and Rattle among others. She is completing a novel. Her independent press, Lit Pot Press, Inc., specializes in quality literary print books and sponsors her online e-zine, Literary Potpourri.

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