No Rest
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Only these maples weave with wood:Their leafless branches intertwineBlack warps and woofs against the shineOf winter sky. I wish I couldUse such a blanket, but I knowSleeping beneath it might be hard.It stands upright in my backyardAnd shows no sign of falling flat.I need a bed to lie on, though,And not a bed to stand up at. [End Page 362]
X. J. Kennedy
X. J. KENNEDY is the author of In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems and the translator of The Bestiary of Guillaume Apollinaire, both from the Johns Hopkins University Press.
