2023 NaPM 30 April

[RiverNotch]

i had another dream where there was a book,
this time a kind of bible, that i was
desperate to get. this was when
i slept for twelve hours straight, i had been drained

by having to climb a quarter of a mountain
in search of snakes, frogs, lizards, and the like.
for the same sleep i wet myself something sticky
but over what image, i do not remember,

only i was grateful it happened the night
i was finally home. endings are really
just beginnings in disguise,

i think, like the back of a book is connected to its front
by its spine, and those who die
summitting a mountain will climb down.