Valeria Melchioretto
Sleepy Pancake
The air lacks oxygen on this high plateau as flat as a plate.
Jawing you wait for a pancake, it is plain as early morning.
Platonically your hair is the colour of egg yoke and egg white
bleached by UV-light. Every day it is in need of a cut.
It keeps outgrowing you, as if it belonged to someone else,
someone you are to become, someone you seem afraid to meet,
Today your mane it is particularly tossed by sleep and sleep
sits in your eyes, opaque as sugar or salt or sodium bicarbonate.
It is however your vigor that originates a new day, your day;
numb sleep being beyond ownership is our only common ground.
By daylight things are as personal as thought but you can't see,
the horizon glazes over with jam as you gaze at your empty plate.
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