why do i hear bells
far-off church in my bedroom
while i try to sleep?

is it divine light
keeping me awake at night
or stress, magnified?

(i recall the bells
ringing love in Michelen–
Belgian waffle day

chocolate, Belgian beer
no words for: straight from the source
and the bell college

chiming through the square
an echo i can’t forget
haunting, pleasing me)

this isn’t Poe’s poem
oh but the bells, bells, bells, bells!!
chocolate for my soul