Last night I had trouble sleeping. What’s new, right?! I have written about my problem with insomnia before. When I went to bed, I read as I usually do. I felt sleepiness and relaxation coming over me, slowly overtaking my limbs, creeping up to my eyelids, making them heavy enough to fall. I shut out the light while my spouse was still awake. Soon, he shut off his light.
Click! No sooner than he did that, I found myself awake! It is like some kind of conditioned Pavlovian response. Click! And, I automatically waken. I stare into the darkness. Then, I start to notice what goes bump in the night!
I noticed a……….
A nose…..click clicking,
A clock…..tick ticking,
A butt…..toot tooting,
A sigh…..sigh sighing,
A toad….croak croaking,
A dog….bark barking,
A light….flick flickering,
A stomach….growl growling,
A cat…..meow meowing,
A car…..honk honking,
A coyote…..howl howling,
A siren….blare blaring,
A door….shut shutting,
A stair…..creak creaking,
I move to a couch in the other room and I hear ……
A stair….creak creaking,
A door….shut shutting,
An eye…..close closing,
Silent stillness……creep creeping,
Slumber……call calling.
I answer.
Sleep.
The Apples in My Orchard 