When Eyes Become Bags
Insomnia by Julia Darling
Sleep is a friend I have fallen out with,
I wish she would come back to me.
I bring her Valerian, milk and honey,
I plead with her, I promise her dreams.
I wander the house listening for her voice
lisping in the cupboards, beyond the walls.
She has sent me here, it’s not the same
as the world by day. I have no friends.
I am alone in slumbering rooms
with snoring chairs and bare faced clocks
I used to love her velvet arms,
her fur kisses, her soundless caves.
If only she would tell me what I’d done
and what it is she wants from me.

Taken from Julia Darling’s Sudden Collapses in Public Places, Arc Publications, 2004. You can find this poem and others on Julia’s website.



April 30th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Dude, the pictures are hilarious!