For the Jacques Cousteau of Sleep

Think about this poem next time before you fall asleep. You will have sweet dreams.

xoxo

Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Four: Time and Eternity

LXIII

Ample make this bed.

Make this bed with awe;

In it wait till judgment break

Excellent and fair.

Be its mattress straight,
Be its pillow round;
Let no sunrise' yellow noise
Interrupt this ground.