Nick Flynn Sleep Poems
- 1. Twenty-pound Stone
It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if
offering my stomach, as if it were pulling me forward.
At night the sun leaks from it, it turns cold, I sleep with it
... - 2. Amber
Hover
the imagined center, our tongues
grew long to please it, licking
... - 3. Statuary
Bees may be trusted, always,
to discover the best, nay, the only
human, solution. Let me cite
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