Sometimes I surprise myself,
he eyes himself
and thinks
I scrub up well,
but I wake up the same
calling your name.
From the battlements, a trumpet sounds
rolling across the manicured lawns and
well-tended grounds
there are no rough edges in my dreams.
jetliners line the runways
someways a way out there
and I'm stood here twiddling my thumbs
watching as she ties up her hair.
dreams are ignorant of the time we set them in, they jump across the centuries like I used to jump across small streams.