only in dreams

by panta rhei

Posted to Action Poetry on 2003-08-05 10:29:00

Parent message is 497119
i sit wrapped up in night
clutching my dream to my body
as if it were a living baby

my eyes closed, i listen
awash with sound
waiting for beethoven to bring sleep

old friends, near misses
and not quite chances
melt and merge into one

some falling angels passing
i count, like sheep
bleating my day-long eyes to sleep

‘you’ll find me’, i say
as i take the hunter’s hand
towards a new and different darkness

skimming the flaming flanks of venus
feeling her heat on my weightless bones

bones remembered?
bones imagined?

meatless, once all biology

an echoe, now,
like all the other stuff
of unmade dreams

i cross years, galaxies, eras,
spiralling from an undiscovered beginning
to an unmapped end

why should i fear the mystified word,
if you, dream, who once were darkness,
now warm my flesh?