Everyday Canvas

Night-Work

Prompt: Creation Saturday! Let's play with the random word generated for your writing pleasure: chaos, council, night, crust, pound and hectic.

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Night-Work

Beneath the crust of chaos
a council of hectic dreams
pound their rusty gavels
on slumber’s podium.
Shall I be wary of,
or maybe, embrace
their frenzied topography
and cunning radiance?

Thus, on awakening,
hiding my head
in the crook of my arm,
I wonder why
the memory blows its smoke
into altered shapes
and sprays caustic spirits
inside me and why,
despite the discipline
of such night-work,
I can’t capture
even a shadow of myself
in my stories.