One theory is that acid wastes in the blood accumulate and depress the brain so much that it wants to lie down at the mouth of a cave on a high, hard ledge shelving over nothing. It wants to think of nothing, be nothing, and wake up empty with sleep in its eyes. Another is that during waking the brain uses up oxygen faster than the body can replace and is so starved by the end of the day it seeks a bed of branching in order to lay its head on laurel green. And a third says that because the afferent impulses of the neurons are contractile with the dendritic process of the cells that any interruption over time isolates the cortex from external stimuli and as interruptions peak in sync with dark the brain wants to lie all night by fire. The theory of amnesia, involving the loss of tone in the vascular heart of the medulla is too particular, especially since, except in fits and starts, nobody sleeps- though there are children who sleep through anything, even memory and waking, and adults who work the nightshift or the streets who only pretend by closing their eyes, even in daylight. But the vertical brain wants to lie down, beside water if it can or under wind topping the tall pale grasses. It wants to alter its relation to the bed to give up gravity to the ground, to let the mind float out in spirit-bouyant air, to feel, at the foliate edge, the mind relieved. And because it cannot sleep it wants to dream the sexual narrative of longing and connection, the journey of the body in light continually dying, the cold wet morning air silvering down on the night earth warming toward the sun, and then to hear the first bell-clarity of song, which, if you were dreaming, would wake you. - by Stanley Plumly

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