04-01-2023, 07:57 AM
Night Blob
Sleep, you formless jellyfish
so seldom there when one would wish–
surrounded by your piscine friends
which, dreamlike, swim among the bends
of your envenomed floating arms
undaunted by their nightmare harms
as if unreal. But there is more
to jellyfish or man-of-war:
for at alarm-clock’s tidal ring
they float away but leave their sting
entangled in awakening.
Sleep, you formless jellyfish
so seldom there when one would wish–
surrounded by your piscine friends
which, dreamlike, swim among the bends
of your envenomed floating arms
undaunted by their nightmare harms
as if unreal. But there is more
to jellyfish or man-of-war:
for at alarm-clock’s tidal ring
they float away but leave their sting
entangled in awakening.
Non-practicing atheist