I time-travel in my dreams.
I am not awakening from sleep,
but returning from a sojourn to the past.
My eyes carry freshly-plucked anguish to the present -
though it belongs here only after being wrapped tightly by years of time,
well-preserved but impossible to taste directly.
Jun 22, 2010
Jun 22, 2010 at 1:25 PM UTC
I time-travel in my dreams.
I am not awakening from sleep,
but returning from a sojourn to the past.
My eyes carry freshly-plucked anguish to the present -
though it belongs here only after being wrapped tightly by years of time,
well-preserved but impossible to taste directly.
- june 2010