Insomnia Reprise

I’m worried about the magnolias

The magnolias are worrying me

When I look at the magnolias I feel worried

The magnolias feel worried when they look at me

Installing lights below goblet flowers for shadows on opaque clouds to illuminate the striving and worrying

Long pink crescents cover the dial at my feet and I search for it in the dark with my eyes in my fingertips 

Crawling to the trunk bumping on washed up camouflage fossils feeling knee panic 

Turn down the brightness to subtle in focus out focus as the wind sloshes the branches 

Spring is implied in my crouching one day I’ll straighten up pull back glass of water