"You won’t accept sweat
as currency—won’t exchange
the salt on my skin

for a single penny. No passage. The glass
on my bedside table blurs
its hem. You’ve transplanted

my heart with a rabbit’s, scavenged
my tongue for its furred pelt. You’ve hung it
from my closet’s hook by my

belts and scarves. Are you now
at the thermostat with your wicked
flick of a thumb, once again

adjusting the temperature?
My only motion
sips water, reaches for socks. I switch

off the lamp the mirror the book
and stare at the bulb’s
lucent coil. I heat a blue

ceramic dish of lavender oil
to induce sleep. Its scent winds up
the rungs of my window’s blinds. You say,

Climb them. But you lie,
say I can return. As I step up, the red
in my hair burns, blows out. The metal

blinds bow, like a singing saw,
with all the nocturnal
homesick timbres of a voice.

"

— Insomnia, Anna Journey

(Source: commovente)

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