IT'S INSOMNIA ALL OVER AGAIN

The night splits
     a fractured egg, a cloven hoof,
     a splintered keg.

Sleep cracks
    a porcelain plate, an icy pond,
    a blackboard slate.

Dreams shatter
     a lightening bolt, a thunderclap,
     a frightened colt.


July 1996



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