Stepping On Something Sweet
Stepping on something sweet
Quiet shades of twilight
ushering in a sullen mist
while hushed purple shapes
cling like the jealous forlorn lover
never letting go
A tender whisper
from some far off place
of long ago
tantalizes my soul
with orange dreams
A pas de deux
of joy and pain
spills from my nostrils
across an ocher sky
to the curtsy of black tulips
All these things
and a whip-poor-will too
sally down to sweep me
inside their cavernous mouth
swallowing everything I am
The hollowed echo
of a bedroom door
closing behind me
mimicking the sound
of institution
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