Jake's Flea Market

prove the man in the moon’s
thumb and his finger that points
at the sleeper’s eye pinch
the cabbage leaf edge of the eyelid 

argue that he pulls the eyelid up the 
forehead of a cabbage 
pulls the waker’s closed
eye open to a widened squint

conclude the caterpillar
brain in the head of cabbage sees
a line of fire across the horizon and wake 
a boy in the green world to witness dawn