Toddlers

when eyes roll in

backwards

and the re-wind, on the alarm clock

mechanism,

seems it won't... in the morning

be working;

and we're caught, looking 'round

for glasses, for coffee,

or reading,

and those odd slippers, are waiting

unseen;

we might remember, then

all these things, inarticulate

were once far up

on the table, even more

out of reach