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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Sleep slide

Her mind is like a bathroom filled with steam.
The mirror of her memory fogs up.
But the thought flashes like a scalpel glint:
‘The rhythm of the waves wears down the rocks’.
She thinks: ‘Gnomic nonsense for a last thought?
A lighthouse flickers in the moment’s ink.
A paramedic insists: ‘Stay with me.’
She thinks: ‘They speak clichés in Hades too.’
Her mind says: ‘In the beginning, the word,
The word was Ovid. No, it was Shakespeare?’
The siren alarms the merciless streets.
The passing lights are false flowers for the dead.
The hanging moon’s chain is about to break.
She sleep-slides into midsummer night's dream
And finds a clear stream where her skin can breathe.


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