7:30 a.m.     inside 2905 elm street
missed (remiss)

(so thoroughly rapt in wrapping
my nightmare-plagued sweetie
in the sleeps of love — which
involves sleeping very close
no matter how hot it is, so as to
provide a skin through which the
bad dreams cannot penetrate —
i too became wrapped in a sleep
so utter that the alarm is not even
a memory faded in my conscious-
ness — in my night, it simply
wasn't.) (and on the last night too!)