Prayer to Sleep

come quietly
as the rat snake

i used to hear in the crawl space
above the ceiling

administer my medicine
in dark spoonfuls

ravish me
with fire-siren teeth

then close me like a book
with one long sentence

let the old dreams
give way to new

don’t leave me shivering
on your shore

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