Making a Bed

Making a Bed
by Howard Moss


I know how to make a bed
While still lying in it, and
Slip out of an imaginary hole
As if I were squeezed out of a tube:
Tug, smooth—the bed is made.
And if resurrections are this easy,
Why then I believe in all of them:
Lazarus rising from his tomb,
Elijah at the vertical—

Though death, I think, has more than clever
Household hints in mind and wants
The bed made, once, and for good. 


"Making a Bed" by Howard Moss, from New Selected Poems. © Athenaeum, 1985.