Night Sails

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I have decided to make the bedroom

My vessel and cover every flat surface

In blankets and pillows and 

Teddy bears.

All the everyday clothes shall be tossed. 

I will wear only ruby red gowns from now on,

And, of course, when it is cold,

Fuzzy socks.

The light-switch shall always be off. 

I will keep an ever-charged flashlight

For under-cover reading and 

Shadow manufacture.

By day the window shall be shuttered. 

I will blot out the sunlit world and all 

Its un-strangeness, and make the 

Dark everlasting.

By night I shall throw open the window. 

All the air out under the moon must be

Let in with its breathing breeze and 

Impish gusts.

I will follow a path of stars strewn and 

Sail my ship of cushions out

In vast magic dreams.

Anchors away!

by Lori Martin

6/2/15