The sky doesn't know what it is yet,
An irresolute wash scribbled over by
Night things, something that scratches,
An insect or bird, an itching of sound
In the dense smudge of inkblots
That by morning are trees.
The starlit effusion is wiped off the canvas
And the sky shakes awaiting the klaxon of sun
Like the teenage boy in his roiling bedsheets
Who doesn't quite know what day it is yet.