In My Pillow by Elizabeth Madox Roberts — Read

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When Mother or Father turns down the light, / I like to look into my pillow at night.

Some people call them dreams, but for me / They are things I look down in my pillow and see.

I saw some birds, as many as four, / That were all blue wings and nothing else more.

Without any head and without any feet, / Just blue wings flying over a street.

And almost every night I see / A little brown bowl that can talk to me,

A nice little bowl that laughs and sings, / And ever so many other things.

Sometimes they are plainer than I can say, / And while I am waking they go away.

And when nobody is coming by, / I feel my pillow all over and try

And try to feel the pretty things, / The little brown bowl and the flying wings.

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