Wednesday, January 30, 2008

just before sleep

Just before I fell asleep
Two women I had seen on t.v. earlier
Had a fight on the backlit screen of my closed eyes

Tearing and ripping
Almost to the point of feathers flying
The light from the streetlamp pushing
Red and black bolts mashing and slashing

While a dog barked outside
Yipping yapping
at something from the yard

they were fighting about this:

we should not fight to show how smart we are

(from a day of me thinking: I can’t spend my life poured
over books and blank screens trying to prove some thing to some one

It must be a non thought.

But of course that is true
I must not think)

And one said yes
And one said no

the world is wide
and fits on a map on my wall

1 comment:

Linda Sonrisa said...

hey Faraway Girl, your work just gave me the chills! my transcendent friend. Monasteries and first kisses, the world on a map on the wall. You rock my dear. I can't wait to read more... xooxoxo Linda