============================================================================= A Dream of Storms ============================================================================= Cloudy water spilling over the sidewalks out of M lot Dirty brown with yellow claws heaving up the foundations Orange pylons waving goodbye in rear view mirrors Trees peeking over hillside apartments 1. storms rolling over on long gray carpets. dripping mouths for clouds. eyes cast sideways in round brick buildings. heads on swivels. on sticks. blinking in and out of this life. standing in a crack of lost vision. thoughts fracking paths. swathes of forest gone. shaven like mother nature's head. split ends. 2. ripples pushing silt down the asphalt. train cars screeching by on old rusted denials. everybody gets a little lost. trapped in the glass over the sink. can't dry those hands what's the point the paper's all burned up. the city is a drain through sharp metal grates. and the rain isn't letting up. 3. your eyes are skyglow left out in the sun. arm like a wasp nest growing along my back. jumper cable tongue. my mind won't turn over. tombstone teeth. your words weave choreographed dances for the dead. those black winter skies outside the dining hall on the hill. you won't take any pictures of those. i dream in a language of stars scattered in that place. a series of forms always shifting in a silent noise. --- === --- Somewhere the rooms have no shadows in the corner with all the lights on Somewhere the words mean more than pleasantries 4. standing on the shore of alabaster oceans. discolored in murky rain. sluggish drizzle playing tag with my eyelashes. the pods on stilts are silent and dead. no one to come out and play. the boats are all moored. the gulls are gone. the threads on the horizon are spinning themselves into a new fabric. i cannot feel the texture. i cannot taste it. just the dryness of cotton on my tongue. numbness carved in stone. a wilted joy like a flag in the rain. your hair over your eyes. --- === --- Dreams liquid and losing like all and f l o w i n g meaning ha e s p