When your brain activates after midnight, it’s decidedly inconvenient
Wrestling with it for an hour
Failing to fall into a dream
Accepting your restlessness
What now?
Revisit the beautiful story you shelved?
What was the logic for its abandonment again?
Too long and sprawling?
Write an abridged version
Less melancholy
Less complex
Lighten it up
Introduce a new viewpoint
Try to revive it
Not all in one night
Let it percolate in your dreams
You have to sleep eventually
Right?
Write
Always
Poems of Pandemic Days by Alice Curley 