Thank You For Sleep

overhead, pushing,

underfoot, dragging me

beneath the sound of wind

driving its nails into these

walls and this roof.

Thank you for stone

and rafter isolation

sheltering and covering

like the dignified hands

that hold together seams

of sky and earth.

Thank you for morning

light-fall coating shapes

of trees still standing

outside the fragile miracle

of sills and glass panes

that heard me interrogate

another night of storms

with prayerful questions.

Thank you for safe passage

into the fresh blue silence

of today's new world to love.