Sleepless Eye

Sleepless Eye, 2013

NEEDLE – Charles Simic

At ghost hour,
Let one of your fingers
Walk the floor
Of this old house,

As if it were a
Dark forest,
With your dead mother’s
Silver needle

In a bird’s nest
One lone drop of blood
Sliding down
To its sleepless eye.

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