to stay asleep

not awaited not invited.  deep
indigo, deep night.   and sweeping
in they come.  unwanted from behind the bed
unwanted from below.  or from the
very in of it.  unwanted.  from the diagonal distant
familiar place.  the stark place,  from far.
from far too close to see.  from far. 

the monster hiss, the seethe
knobby and plain.  and true

with ears and eyes:
mine is a zenith horizontal. 

an already.

diagonally distant.  far. 

pay attention,  i think
in the middle of the night in 

the middle of the mare 
of me i
know:

i want my zenith. 

jumpstand.  and
not awaited not invited visions
damn and visions dark.   and sweeping
in they come.

those feral figments:  the old        
the done.

that flailing mahogany phantasm, that fabled
white inferno.   awakened   

from it: the smiled upon, the understood
the bloodless itchy-warmth.   comfortable. 

lilifed sanctuary.         flat-lineation and
jumpstand.  and it is morning.

at the edge, I'm facing the blaze.