Sleeping Mosquito


It is about doubling root number two metres away from me

Two hind legs inclined 15 degrees to the right nearly parallel

The muddy brown rectangular body and cylindrical torso

are perpendicular to the line where the two walls meet

We count the invisible hours

attached to different shades of light and touch of white


Give me 30 minutes to eat

Will it still be there waiting when I return

And will it still be in that position

Allow me to touch it in all its variations in the solidity of its life