sleeparchipelago
/ˌsliːpɑːkɪˈpɛləɡəʊ/nounVerified NewAlso in: Schlafarchipel (Deutsch) · sueñoarchipiélago (Español) · sommeilarchipel (Français)
The islands of waking scattered through a night of sleep — the broken night as a chain of small lands in a dark sea.
The sleeparchipelago is the night of the new parent, the anxious, the old: each waking is an island, brief and inhabited, and the sea between is the sleep that may or may not return. The navigator charts the islands by the clock, and the mainland — the unbroken night — is a country remembered from years ago.
Etym. — sleep + archipelago — the island-chain metaphor for the fragmented night; an archipelago is exactly a set of small lands separated by water, which is what the broken night is.
Rel. — wakequota · sleepcartography
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