Slumber's Edge

©David Challoner 2019

 







In the frayed ends
between wakefulness and sleep
loom myriad tapestries,
conversations woven
with people long-dead 
and today's work-place colleagues
insinuating their hue
like thread across
the half finished embroidery hoops
of the mind's eye.

In these night-time hours
of fitful drowsing
the mad scenes
of a healthy subconscious
are drawn up toward mindfulness,
mingling with the filament
of yesterday's affairs,
illuminating images
stored for future scrutiny
by the mind's many-layered microfiche.

©Janet Henderson 14th May 2017