Here is a story, or maybe a song.
One night in the house of pollution,
the house of unrest:
I ran from a sky on fire,
but this is not what I remember. I pushed open a rusted door,
screened with silted crossed wire,
studded with iridescent wings, pushed past a yellowed
notice. The words are lost, but the carpet was green
with moss or damp, missing decades hanging heavy in the air
and the end was in us, the end was with us even then.
We were there, in that lampless waste.
There was no sun to throw our secret shadows into relief,
hands touching behind the cream-laid screen, faces close together
And there was no moon to hear any whispered word.
The dream was dark. I ran on the dead,
tracked my heels and crushed resin scent away from the trees,
and I woke speaking.
I woke to find myself lost.
I sat up to sing of the end.
