upturning flax

by upturning flax, someone has crafted the sheets
that you lay on & spread out in tonight…
and by returning flax, someone has given you
the opportunity to do it again each evening.

now, i’m no one to say that i know anything
about what night time brings to you…
but i hope it brings a big calm -
a suffocation of easiness that puts you to rest -
a knock-out easiness that’s like ether to a beetle…

and just like him, you’re collected & cared for – but not on display,
for the Good Lord has taken to keep things at bay
that could possibly disturb or undo
the flax that was upturned for you.