prelude to a dream

a voyager in dark waters

wonders when his fathers

consumed themselves like roaring seas

and if they woke on colorful shores.

the top below him gives away

his feet stand above his eyes

squeezed beneath

a sandwich mouth

all he sees is a purple tongue…

his ears ache

like roaring seas

that sweep the sand and break his dream

which falls into a quiet staring at the moon

and his fingers hold blue and pitch-black sands.

momentarily, he senses every grain