Two Dreams

The dreams are swift, she leaps, lands, throws her skirt

In bed adrift, unconsciously alert

I shut my eyes, I don’t cease to live

Embrace her thighs, smell her smell, forgive

Seems vague, yet I can tell –- there is a writing on the wall

Heaven’s down, up is hell, trendy ultimatums, wail, bawl

Next, I’m packing; voices, unheard thoughts through unseen eyes

I will not roll a Royce, she will not bound for east fly

Two dreams, two Margarets, as many as you can fit in one night

Rather kind self-portrait, as long as away from the shining knight

A dozen sweet dreams, a dime a dozen, grime, a dozen Margarets

Drown, paddling upstream, dive in a coven, slyly cozened, cigarettes

Hear, hear! To the many unfaces seen

And a salute to the unheard eyes

Her blood turns clear, runs backward, gelatin

Lady and gent, now say your goodbyes

Say what you will, yet won’t say it aloud

The unseen is, yes, in sight, plain

The moon flushes, steals behind a close cloud

The tracks lead nowhere, board the train