Kaleidoscope by June Stepansky - HTML preview

SLEEPING SICKNESS

I stopped sleeping in October.

My sleep has always been deep and restful,

but in October I stopped sleeping.

I didn’t sleep for one night.

I didn’t sleep for two nights,

and then I didn’t sleep for three nights.

Between October and March,

I took sleeping pills and went to a therapist.

I would wake in the night, in terror,

unable to breathe.

It’s possible that I might

have been molested

by a close relative

when I was five.

I don’t remember.

I can hardly believe it.

I only know that between

October and March

I stopped sleeping,

and in April my sleep was again

deep and restful

and nourishing.