Wild Dreams

breathless hush
Beyond dreams
with candlelight burns

Lives cross lives idling
Beyond souls emptiness'
piano speaks
'It's all in one mind'
the trees listening
for they are one
with the universe
Eyes smell flowers and become them

There's a deathless hush tonight
tidal wave sweeps in
breathes and sinks all lights lit

Mormon tabernacles washed away like barnacles
Coyotes are confounded & swim nowhere
An orchestra keeps on playing Handel's Water Music
Horns fill with water float away like lovers horizontal
Loop becomes a rollercoaster
like water glasses mixed with Buddhist brine
watered down beer topped with sea foam
Beau Fleuve suddenly become salt

buried masts of Amsterdam arise
the great wave sweeps
to wash away over-age Camembert
steaming in sea-vines

the washed land awakes again to wilderness
the only sound a vast thrumming of crickets
a cry of seabirds high over
and Indians reclaim their canoes


(Blackout of Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti)