19th DAY or WHAT We KNoW oF sLeeP
We don’t have the basic
knowledge of sleep
the professor said on the TV program,
between two attacks in the Gulf,
and he added that the smaller the animal
the less they sleep.
Look at the bird
perched on the high branch
it knows
that if it falls asleep
numbed by the godly blue
it will lean downward
it will break the branch
and who knows into what abysmal
embrace of the dead it might fall
if it goes to deep sleep
if it deeply dreams
of heavens.
Libros Libertad 