NaPoWriMo Prompt Day 5 - “The Night has Teeth” Thanks Alex Dawson for challenges like this. It’s fun!

Insomnia, my frequent nocturnal companion

Stays with me, anxious, brooding

The room hums: Electricity, a fan surges

The husband and the dog snore

In spite of CPAP technology

The blankets too itchy

Too hot

My brain is on fire with ideas

My body with tension and some

Unnamed hunger that

Food cannot satisfy

Do we dare venture out to count stars?

Is there a meteor going to ground?

Shooting by to count wish or curse

What could be hiding under the

Cloak of Night?

The Cheshire Cat will greet us

With her rictus and sinister countenance

Not knowing what we seek

But knowing that the night has teeth

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