Self and Dream Self
Routines of decaying timefade, and your waking lifegets laborious as science.You huddle in, becomingthe deathless younger selfwho will survive your dreamsand vanish in surviving.Dream brings on its storyat the pace of driftin twilight, sunless color,its settings are believed,a library of wood shingles,plain mythic furniturevivid drone of talk,yet few loves return:trysts seem unkeepable.Urgencies from your timejoin with the browner suitswalking those arcades with youbut then you are apart,aghast, beside the numberlessdefiling down steep fenceinto an imminence —as in the ancient burrowyou, with an ever-changing cast,survive deciding episodestill you are dismissedand a restart of tensesummons your waking sizeout through shreds of story.
self and dream self
