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Dreams Coercing Memory


“Dreams Coercing Memory” 

You want cherries jubilee
with a little Krug champagne
but soft custard is just the same
when reality plays its game
by the spoonful
morphine comes 
to save the day

the light changes 
subtle refractions 
of dreams coercing
memory

long elegant fingers

poised painted apricots
those false '70s fingernails 
tremendous talons 
for Tchaikovsky takeoff 

gracefully shimmering

glamorously sparkling
eyes smiling, clicking keys
without fear, the notes become
a romantic Chopin mystery

pianola peddles 
next to her laughs 
and says with glee,  
a good exercise

back then, we didn't
have the time, says
the matriarch smiling
just like a mother 

come to collect 

on the other side 
her sister, hand on shoulders
sits next to her 
a Nightingale Linnet

the number 
at pianola
3

one number 
most 
profound

one number

devine aligned,
most hard to forget
or push aside

kept close
in Love and loved 
for all eternity

this one 
as 3 
should never hide

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
LM/HMM/LJM
17.9.23
mlb, klb, llb

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