Floating on foam with a memory
under cover of aviary clothes
Pulled up just right to chin
Laying on snoreless left side
Preventing midnight elbowings
adhesive strip stuck to nose
Mean morning siren set to blow
at the time it was told to go
it’s screech bottled for now
Two mutts curled on pillows
running down sleep’s rabbits
yipping in rhythm to feet
Slipping further from noise
from tightening shoulders
and the detritus of day