Kit Kelen #65 - shallow night dreaming

shallow dreaming night

all night dreaming

to be where I am

odd clock look

and each turn a new strophe

dreaming the lost lines

for today

it took a lot of working out

dreaming surreal stuff

like took a drink

and the glass was forehead embedded

though not mine now

much more that couldn't be written

all night I was telling my dreams

and you told yours

dreamt I was trying to sleep

that old chestnut

not a word was said

some ghost at my legs tugging

in a childhood bed

I stood peering out into the valley

I asked my father

how they were feeding him

he said 'nothing, nothing'

and I went on

all night dreaming

to be where I am 

65

shallow dreaming night