The Sleeping Pig

By Jenny George

It is easy to love a pig in a nightgown.

See how he sleeps, white flannel

straining his neck at the neckhole.

His body swells and then deflates.

The gown is nothing to be ashamed of, only

the white clay of moonlight smeared

over his hulk, original clothing, the milk

of his loneliness. The flickering candle

of a dream moves his warty eyelids.

All sleeping things are children.

Copyright Credit: Jenny George, "The Sleeping Pig" from The Dream of Reason. Copyright © 2018 by Jenny George. Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.