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Fox’s Sleep

From I am The Big Heart, Brick Books, 2020.

 

Fox’s Sleep

The first pill gives you sleep like warm butter.

Then it leaves the butter dish out.

Then it moves the butter dish to 

not where you’ve left it.

 

Pictured: Still Life with Game Suspended on Hooks (Detail). Circa 1640s. Oil on canvas. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.