The tongue may drop back
and cause an airway blockage
in spite of every effort
to prevent the blocking
by holding the jaw forward,
tilted towards noon;
in such cases
a silkworm-silk stitch
must be passed through
lingua franca
and brought out
under the patter,
figure-eight pattern
tied to a safety pin
or towel clip,
with a prayer murmured
to the caterpillar
of a saturniid moth,
its days spinning cocoons.