your sleep

                  for Kim

when you fall off to sleep

you glow

like the inside of

an almond

so alluringly touchable

yet Sleep is guardian of the body

shielding you from the world

and my stirring hands

your sleep is the still sleep of marble

sculpted by the gentle blade of shadow

and night’s light

you sleep quietly like plains of amber

open for the night to discover you in

all your sleeping splendour

the moonlit clouds break open

in whispers at the sight of your slumber

how blessed to wake next to you

like waking next to

a murmuring field of rye

if only i could be there 
deep within your sleep

and feel so entirely close to you,

so completely with you