Idiot Child on a Fire-Escape

Obedient as a bundle,

parked in your careful shawls,

you will not fall

into the exertions

of the earth under you,

having spilled,

on your way to becoming,

your skill in Being.

Sunlight excessively

illumines your deep eyelids

domed awnings

over the somnolent

reluctance of your sight—

inverted cups

of mortal ivory,

almost emptied.