Yarrow House

Pandora Night

Sleep's a curse on nights like these 
restless dreams roll over
show another side encrusted
with weed and snarled memories 

and day can't lock away 
the loosened flotsam. I'd sleep,
if I could sleep again, to shut
and keep the night at bay.

I'd sleep, if I could sleep and not 
keep toying with the lock.
				

Published in Borderlands, Court Street Press, Seattle: 1999

Onetime reproduction for non-resale purposes permitted by the author with the following credit line:  by Judith Yarrow