#797 - in another world of mine

 

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797

3.70

in another world of mine

for dream catalogue

 

puzzle the place over

top of the stairs

and squeeze

 

where I sat

first here

then when I moved

a series of places

 

priest hole

foxhole

rabbit

rat

worm

slip down

slip away

 

through

faster than light

 

there’s nothing but remembering

trying to see, to invent

each place another

 

never guessing where to be

never guessing where we are

 

someone said

‘just a teaspoon’

‘just one bad leaf’

 

time in the other world

isn’t time

 

aware of where

 

here’s the half light in my head

 

every message is coded

 

it’s true that later no one knows

but we are here and now

 

where death is my constant companion

 

and every night

after all our making

we pray ‘let there be light’