Supine Sleeper

Hopper's Unpainted Supine Sleeper

The geometry of this unpainted
Scene wraps around the sleeping woman
Who forms a single line in the center
Of the large bed which covers the middle
Of the painting stretching under her
Vertically across the room; she is sleeping
On her back, with her arms at her side
As though she were dreaming at attention.
Her face is gazing with closed eyes at the
Ceiling. She has taken this line out of here.
Her dreams are not in this painting; not one.
They whirl her out of line into herself;
In them she does not even try to take
The straight line nor does she even pay
Any attention to veticality.
Horizontally prone she bares her back
In her dream to the imagined warmth of light hands.
The window on the left is open
To the early morning light which
Shines in upon her forming a yellow
Glow of warm awaking that reminds her
Of hands that once put her to sleep.