Resting (not sleeping)
Tried : tired : trying —
The loop of the day
ends and for all of it
the undeliverable unreadable
was a stone in my shoe slivering my heel,
a rock
on the path of
the silver moon,
nagging
snickling
sickening
stone —
dust in the eye —
When resting, nothing worse
than the circumference of a thought
caught on a crestless tide : circling a point
everstill, not to be caught
til day.
I want to set it all down, this walking, this work, this pocket of letters icn’atraed :
put them down
and rest, set them
down — not as words
on paper, but as
the heavy weight
no one speaks of.
