summer night

SLEEPLESS SUMMER NIGHT

Wake whenever
light or late.
Three quarter moon will slip past
sung by purrowing cats.
Some swifts will be up there
tipping and tilting slight
in sleep,
to dip and rise with the sun.
My heart beats
thud thud
thud thud.
Not broken then,
not ripped, not torn asunder

Sleep
heavy lidded woman -
be with the thudding heartbeat
that covers the terror