Ode: I’m sleep. An only hill
I’ve been researching
Awake most nights:
A clean face in the morning − caped
W/ sounds. Sounds caped w/ light that’s the best.
Dogs and woods by the ocean
Together, like them and like us.
Can you dig the stillness? Can you keep an eye out, the ocean over.

Repeat this until approved,
“I don’t know about you”
But in a tone that’s affirmative — the jeweler’s words for whale
-bone / measured blues − while

This stretch, like all good double crosses, tells a story dropping hints of a larger, full-mouthed focus to one side, blocking another? Do we lead a life another sings with you?