Sleep like it’s all beginning.
Let your body in.
Think of her fingers.
Pace your insides.

Sit under the tree.
Flicker like the end
of a chrysanthemum

firework. Climb that tetanus
nightmare playground equipment.

Laugh at the pigwolves. Laugh
at the elfhorses. Look
at me. Please remember.
Let the silence pass through.
Smell the woods, keep
Quiet sleep.

– Sarah-Kathryn Bryan