onomatopoeia

       onomatopoeia

some words -- call out:
round, loud
or screeching traction
or precise, pertinent
or subtle, evanescent
or in the end
awe

calls coming to shake and point
in the direction
like swallowing a throw

sounds only hiss
shushing
isn't silence



--- [updated July 9, 2019 with G.'s help]

falling asleep

falling asleep

How to pass from this world to another world?
The numb blankness whose weight sinks into the pillow.
Untie the dark blanket and let it fall down the spar,
get the rig running. Then, carefully, pull yourself up
and tip-toe to the mast, descend the Jacob's ladder
to the main course, and balance out,
and once it is safe, jump into the blue ocean.
The splashing, at a loss of nautical,
and swim disarmingly back
to the brown keel.
And climb the wooden castle,
and once the kite has settled,
mount on the stone castle steps.
The steady stone bed,
the hot day blows noise
from a distant crowded market.