Awake Before Being Woken
The chance is to run out of sleep and as with the arc of a vaulter here already
in correspondence;
little bricks of familiarity
still lodged in the images;
is it you still asleep turning over in the bed
or the sound of the blood in the blood vessel in my ear?
First thought is death—we know that. The second assesses the stages of light
(whatever I am doing there is an occurrence surrounding me).
I want to open something private and give it a name;
walking through the exact;
the rupture of dawn repeats.
It would be better if we were listening to the same tone together,
but the noun is engorged
and we don’t think we can have it
(alt: I tried to press through the material but
was fatigued and could only gesture toward an imagined spot in front of us).
Who will feel the line
buzzing in the jaw?
Anchored right here?