Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Dream Merchant

Sell me your words, merchant of verse
Light-feathered mirages however intense
 
Quick, sell them before waking up
priests of propriety and of windup 

Sell me potions of memory and loss
Throw in a few half-hearted goodbyes

Have you cultural idioms from the past
For my rusted picture frames at last

Bags of clouds, strings of unheeded hour
Have you rainflower shower, arm-lock our

Life lurks to steal these moonbeams
Oh sell me braided jasmine dreams 

Pray why do you look away?
Will all my dreams suffice to make you stay?



 

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