sleep jars
of unnoticed laughter
watch
your mothed fingers
untie
a midnight chorus of edges
unhinged
we arc backwards
one thousand paper cranes
asleep in my mouth
forever tracing the edge of your stillness
the night I slept in your throat
climb into my breast-knot
let go
let go
let go
crawl me
to a place
of near
Victoria Mohr-Blakeney is a choreographer, visual artist and creator. She is a graduate of the Banff Centre’s Writing with Style program (2008). Her poem “Sleep Jars” is an excerpt from a full-length narrative poem titled The Night I Slept in Your Throat. She lives, writes and works in Toronto.
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