Your Roof Is Thin

At night, it would be kind
For us to drop like notes
Of consolation, one

At a time, slow keyboard
Music played carefully
But with feeling, played well,

The way the night sky’s lights
Appear through partial haze,
The stronger stars well spaced,

One here blue, one garnet,
Asterisms more than
Proper constellations,

Small pins from the great fires,
One word here, one word there,
No sentences, parcels,

Your mind a shell, sleep’s wool
Lost, thoughts at lake’s shoreline,
No longer beleaguered.