NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 25 poetry prompt: Write a poem that uses at least three metaphors for a single thing. The poem should include an exclamation, ruminate on the definition of a word, and come back in the closing line to the image or idea that opened the poem.

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My bed warms me and holds me down
like a rack and this nurse crystal balled me
with hospital corners cocooned to Kip,
who shouted “get off of my cloud!”
and someone grabbed my neck
as I was falling  like a bouncing quarter
off a tight one, drunk that night
and then in sight a fool rolled me
when the dogs attacked the sack.
I wondered who are you and “she
touched me.” My bed holds all my soul
for a day in three, the third with friends and foe,
and my bed never says “no.”

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