SLEEP CONSOLIDATES MEMORY

Or so researchers say, as though
Sleep has nothing better to do,
But perhaps sleep is polymathically
Busy, whereas memory runs
Around its cul-de-sac grabbing
Bits of experience—polymythically,
We might say—then letting them
Go, almost, like hands swooping
At the last minute to snatch a
Dropped cup but not catching
It and keeping one cup after
Another aloft, polyrhythmically.