Daydream

Your bed!
Wrecked with the roaring kinetic energy
of a loaded rollercoaster.

Grays hid in linen folds & body creases.

The creases were panting—
gray & thirsty.

Brown & rigid in the crook of an elbow.

Linens. Your linens—
bedded, kinetic, & roaring, like tornadothunder.
The creases were panting.

after Jay Hopler


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Date created 01 Jan 2008
Date modified 28 Jan 2018
Manuscript The Great Permission
Journal Poetry Salzburg Review (Apr 2022)