April is National Poetry Month! Sierra Nelson: "Your Eyes Are Closed, But You Aren't Dreaming"

Ooh, I missed a day. Thank goodness for LJ backdating.

Swiped from a friend who said she saw this on a bus in Seattle.


Sierra Nelson, "Your Eyes Are Closed, But You Aren't Dreaming."

You are traveling slowly
Like a great shipwreck still sailing.
Almost tenderly, the sun puts a hand to your forehead.
Yes, you think. I've been unwell. You sink into the feeling.
But the sun is blind and must touch everything:
Always feeling its gold way forward towards the dark.