Sunday, October 19, 2008

Poem on a series of bad dreams

"Awaking,

My dreams linger in the laburnum of my head,

My thoughts suspended by a thread of imagination..."

There is an insane country of dreams

That continually beckons me.

That like hands kneading dough, continually kneads

My cranial chaos to phantasms of pure bewilderment.

I try to avoid them, those hands.

I try to run away from that country.

Yet each morning that hangs

Cold over my waking body

Draws me back to that riot-realm,

The dream reduced to the stale taste of

Night in my mouth.