Tag: #bed

• #082: get out of bed

  

  It is noon And I still lie in supine Under my palace of ink-stained bedding Smelling the day two aroma of the fresh sheet I stretch my limbs Toe prints pad the cave I’ve made Before retracting knee to pit Am I a happy baby? Or a lost pup Chasing the duvet’s tale instead of…

  leona allen

  July 27, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #bed, #campnanowrimo, #poetry, #procrastination

• #023: This mattress of mine

  

  [After Kai Miller’s ‘A Short History of Beds We Slept in Together’] . The first brand new bed I bought for myself Smelled like independence and recycled cotton Perhaps I’d spent too many years in house-share beds That smelled like quarter-life crises smothered in overpriced rent I lugged this new mattress of mine up the…

  leona allen

  May 29, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #bed, #mattress, #newbed, #newhouse, #poetry