Nick Flynn Sleep Poems

  • 1.
    It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if
    offering my stomach, as if it were pulling me forward.

    At night the sun leaks from it, it turns cold, I sleep with it
    ...
  • 2.
    Hover
    the imagined center, our tongues
    grew long to please it, licking

    ...
  • 3.
    Bees may be trusted, always,
    to discover the best, nay, the only

    human, solution. Let me cite
    ...
Total 3 Sleep Poems by Nick Flynn

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