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Dry Beast Night (Sestina) by fevriere
When you wake on the cusp of salt moisture
and find yourself thin or deficient;
when ticks, drips, creaks, rasps irk
and the promise of dream-clouds is broken;
creep like a hunger-strick beast
growl on the prowl for fresh sleep.
The beast seeks a morsel of sleep
and cack cracks his throat after moisture.
The air is displeasing, deficient,
and now every breath starts to irk
and with half-woke work, sleep is broken
leaving cheap cheer for the beast.
The jigsaw's too much for the beast
who's, at the least, starved for sleep
and clutching on tight to dry moisture.
The night is a lover, deficient.
The lover's wet fingers would irk;
But will the silence be broken?
Night wills. The silence is broken
By growls in the heart of the beast
Yearning for flesh-resting sleep
Craving for meta-mouthed-moisture.
Its paws are inept and deficient
Its inept flesh starts to irk.
Hurt wells. Heat swells the irk
that is just a blood vessel. Broken,
it seeps like a curtain. The beast,
Unready, comes heady, and sleep
settles, Certain. That soaking of moisture
Reduces, the beast is deficient
The poor beast is fading. Deficient
of drought. How tragic! Shivers irk
it to scratch 'til skin's broken.
Blood dribbles and where is the beast?
Drowned, in mistiful sleep,
Deep in mythically wet morning's moisture.
So relish moisture, deficient beasts.
Don't irk broken sleep by tickling.
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Arithmetic Mean: 7.888889
Weighted score: 6.4444447
Overall Rank: 749
Posted: January 14, 2004 6:39 AM PST; Last modified: January 14, 2004 6:39 AM PST
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strick should be stricken. I don't know what mistiful should be -- misted? mistful?