Blanket of Dirt

Sleep eludes me
Like a friend that moved away
Dreams replace perception
Inhale exhaustion
Sweat is the skin crying
Boot stomps the shovel blade
Scrunch, grunt, turn
Making a bed
Severing the roots that seek to hold to drink
All the life in the earth
All the death under the sky

We buried a departed dog
We carried a broken heart
I married a corpse who gave birth
To a corpse

Sleep eludes me this cold March morning start
My bed awaits
But I can't pull the covers over me