February 22: Sleep chant

reciting until dawn
the threefold refuge
insomnia

December 4: Full Moon

Setting full moon—

bedroom window lit up

as if it were morning. 

November 17: Night light

awakened in the night

somehow reassured by

the modem’s green light

September 20: Storm

Wakened in the night

by wind rattling my door.

Ghost stories.

July 20: Dawn

Awake too early.
Letting birdsong replace
the chatter in my head.

May 21: Last night on the island

Tolling of the bell buoy,

night cries of gulls.

Waiting to fall asleep.

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December 18: Insomnia

Late night after snowfall--

river a black ribbon

unspooling through dreams.

 

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August 23: Solace of crickets

awake early

even with earplugs in

soothing chorus of crickets

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July 28: Insomnia

A sort of relief

by the time the first bird sings,

something else awake.

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June 1: Insomnia

Geese pass in the dark.

At dawn, rising wind.

I listen to your breathing.

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September 19: Night bells

Buoy bell ringing

in the heavenly temple

of ocean and stars.

 

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September 15: Just before dawn

Just before dawn

a single crow caws--

I'm not the only one awake.

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March 16: Comfort in the dark

Awake at dawn, cold--
only the cat responds
to my touch.

December 30: Nocturne

How bright the one star

visible before dawn

out the bathroom window.

 

 

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October 8: Lunar eclipse

Lunar eclipse
hidden by a thunderstorm
I'm wide awake

September 3: Steamy morning

Mist-shrouded sunrise--

I listen to crickets

by the bedroom window.

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April 23: Cats are nocturnal

In the pre-dawn dark
the cat sits on the pillow,
stares down at his face.

April 19: In the guest room

I wake before dawn.

Bright moon's a lantern hanging

in the pine's branches.

 

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March 23: Morning star

Unable to sleep

my husband finds comfort

in Venus.

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