Tuesday, March 17, 2026

In the Third Sleep

by Meghan Kemp-Gee
(after Kay Sage)


 

I bless you with a future morning,

an airship. We are dirigible.


Our work is throat-work:

wood, wind in the sails.


Our work is, we over-

look the plain. Treeless,


ghost elephants and whalefalls.

Ghost hayfever, bless you. 


Riverbanks, disaster. 

Airsickness, woodwinds. 


Not our own survival,

the third sleep, folding


ropes. Trunks, folding

skyline, sun-baked ivory.




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