Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 6/30/03: Your friend leaves his bedding piled neatly in the planter.

Jay Backstrand, "Songs of Sleep #2" (1973) — Jay Backstrand, *Songs of Sleep # 2* (1973)

June 30, 2003:

Your friend leaves his bedding piled neatly in the planter. Sheets folded, pillows, comforter: all stained now in swaying green underbrush. After taking so much trouble, he couldn't have left it in the bedroom? Laughing, you shake your head.