river stone.27

all night long, the poem tried to escape
through the twists and turns of the sheets.
each burdened rotation became
not this, not this, and not this.
when she woke up in the morning,
it had packed its bags and gone.


[Note: a river of stones involves writing a small stone every day during the month of January 2011. "What is a small stone? A small stone is a polished moment of paying proper attention."]