When I woke from my nap,
words kept darting around
like rapid eye movement,
stitching images together  –
sense from nonsense, or vice versa

I had closed my eyes for just five minutes
but suddenly it was ten thirty
and I had no reason
to be up anymore
except to catch some fleeting words
and put them on a page.

©Wendy Mulhern
January 15, 2022