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I dream about walking through my house
Not my real house , but a double of mine-
After doing some internal adjustments I can tell
I’m inside an apartment inside a house.
This place has awful suicide lighting
I’m just a few degrees away from where I was
But the distance is unbridgeable, so it never mattered.
It has it’s limits, but the limits are unknowable and so invisible.
I won’t know I’ve reached the border til I’ve surpassed it
A watercolor of the sea hangs upside down.
Houses are individuals. Apartments are intruders
In this house , there’s a table w one chair.
In this life I must be alone.
In this life, I’m radiaclly alone and alive.
I peel fruit w the big knife you gave me
Though I don’t handle it the way I really do, palm flat
No, this me has long hair , she is less sexy than I am, but more feminine
Her beauty is refined like the edge a knife
She’s got vesitages of my memories
She never sleeps but pretends to
I know this , anyhow , just by looking
If you listen hard by the window
Harder than you’ve listened to anything in months , maybe years
You can hear the sigh of the sea
Even after I set the watercolor right side up
I still can’t banish the inverted tide from my mind
The windowpanes are a miror in the night
It’s not this place that’s strange, but the one I’m returning to
Sometimes you talk in your sleep
I’ve never asked you what you dream of
I’ve always respected your privacy
And what could be more private than a dream
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“Houses are individuals. Apartments are intruders”
and
“After I set the watercolor right side up
I still can’t banish the inverted tide from my mind
The big black panes are a window in the night ”
Amazing! Your poem is haunting, yet familiar. Gorgeous!
Thanks. I appreciate you taking the time to read
Thank you.
I’m the innermost doll in all my Russian doll dreams
the centermost doll is where all the skeleton keys to the secret spellbooks are kept in all the movies… very nice poem!
Thank you. I really appreciate your input.
So many fantastic lines in here. The ending is superb. I was worried you wouldn’t be writing with us this year. I’m glad you are.
Thank you, Christopher.
“Awful suicide lighting” puts the whole poem in perspective for me! Fantastic job!
Thanks, Piper. It’s definitely unsettling. Sorry, guys.
I love lucid dream feel of “the line between knowing and unknowing is kinetic” and the ending is killer.