Jake's Flea Market

when you wake
blind as you do at every dusk of night

in the hours before sight dims
into your room through the window

in your dormitory   in every cell
in every feather filled bag of bed your friends

classmates   peers with their hands   feel

find the tinderbox you took to your bed

and the short thread in tallow dipped
and dipped a hundred times dipped

the remedy to your sightless eyes