Somnambula

[Magpie]

For some reason I don't see this as incomplete like most of the other commenters and I thought I should say something. If there is any sense or feeling of being 'incomplete' or possibly better to say 'not ending', then I think it only adds to the whole scene and the trees that stand sentinel forever.

The whole overall feeling of the poem for me is one of terror of the unknown and it works.
The line 'listening for the unsound' seems to be the key to the poem, there is an element of madness in it like Leanne said, because of the way it seems nonsensical. I may be wrong but I get the impression that 'the unsound' may have not been understood by all who have read this. Perhaps if you were to put it in inverted commas or even italics it would draw attention to it more.

Having said that I am also starting to wonder if I have missed anything in those last three lines in, 'the quiet', 'the unsound', and 'the sand'. It's the last one that confused me a bit, perhaps a reference that I don't know, although I'm happy to see it as meaning, 'the passage of time'.

I meant to comment on this when I first read it, but I must of got distracted then forgot so I'm glad it managed to come back around.

Thanks for the read,

Mark