Reached for: Naps (I)

The reserves have been spent and are not being replaced, and the tiredness now sits below any level that sleep can reach. The depletion traces back to a mother who did not attend, and to the position that followed — the child who carried the family and was never carried. What it asks for is being attended to while doing nothing whatsoever.

I could sleep for a week and still wake up tired.

Elijah under the broom tree, finished with all of it and asking to be done, fed twice while he slept before anything further was required of him. The form implies a task of being tended before being useful again.