{
  "author": "<NAME>",
  "classification": "Free Verse",
  "keywords": [
    "Nature",
    "Summer",
    "Fall",
    "Trees",
    "Flowers",
    "Animals",
    "The Body"
  ],
  "period": "",
  "reference": "http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180161",
  "region": "U.S., Mid-Atlantic",
  "text": [
    "On the ridge above Skelp Road",
    "bears binge on blackberries and apples,",
    "even grapes, knocking down",
    "the Petersens\u2019 arbor to satisfy the sweet",
    "hunger that consumes them. Just like us",
    "they know the day must come when",
    "the heart slows, when to take one",
    "more step would mean the end of things",
    "as they should be. Sleep is a drug;",
    "dreams its succor. How better to drift",
    "toward another world but with leaves",
    "falling, their warmth draping us,",
    "our stomachs full and fat with summer?"
  ],
  "title": "Sleep",
  "year": ""
}