VITAMIN ZZZ
CLINICAL
Taste of Sleep I woke up this morning to know I can sleep once again, perchance as is said, to dream last night was my first pill I punched it from the foil swallowed the white tablet put aside all the thick conceits that were righteously mine admitted defeat, surrendered took the prescribed medicine
the clinicians insist this is not possible, and it isn’t, but I know what I tasted last night, like host placed in open mouth, tonight I will once again receive the pill and a merciful taste of my own sleep. Eileen Malone
the pink inside of drowsy pecked at insomnia’s shell and I tasted sleep as scented sap drawn from the marrow of all white trees, its flavor almond, dill this morning arrived precisely with me remembering that smell never smelled before similar to parsnip, dose of water hemlock
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WINTER 2018