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28 Insomnia Sketch dreams to make time pass. —journal entry Page one, woman in my closet counts daughter’s pills. Meds have feet, one sleeps in her mouth. Page two renders mother’s ice garden. she wears boxers, apron in snow, sprays crystals on lilacs in bloom, yet her tears won’t freeze. Page three: stick figure, girl trying to fly, naked body bloats, stretch marks wide as wings. Page four’s crone with no navel smiles eden lips, goes it alone with plants, piston, stamen and all. Can’t stop looking, songs I play for weeks. Final page I dig in dark until drowsy from moving moist grit. 29 Unearth baby, wrap her in leaves. Can’t get past her good intent about to unfurl. Maybe this time she will bloom. ...

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