pours through the open window--
marbles pocking the panel of sleep--
while the rumble of machinery
drums in like the elephants' hajj.
"Night work", the sign said,
letters spelled out in puny full moons,
the dates from Independence
to the first school holiday,
winking, the joke on sleep.
Note: today's prompt was to find a phrase on Phrase Finder (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/k.html) and write from that. I love that site, and this prompt, but today was nearly 12 hours of work, so I've pulled another from my knapsack.
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i left a comment and it disappeared hopefully i will not repeat... you made the sound of sleep interrupted by trucks so poetically beautiful humble pie
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