an unmade bed

captures an out of body

experience.

the marbled habit of

Bernini's: The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa of Avila.

whether in a lover's arms, ones own arms--

are the arms of sleep...held by the only Lover.

pillow case, bed sheet and blanket...

crease an inescapable faith--where you

for all the world, and all the world for you...

disappear.

faster than peopled dreams, losing their mark

and place...off they-you go in dreamlessness.

therefrom to rise at your fixed height, warm in

the cold light of day--looking down at an unmade

bed.

parallel and perpendicular rungs stripped

clean with a stretch.