Cimmerian

lucid dreamer chisels

agate star chinks from his malachite sky

divulging compelling illusions:

veiled pagan rituals

of doubting and distancing

hacks tourmalined trepidation and

ambivalence of conflicting feelings

lays bare essential polarity

of wanting and not wanting,

while fireflies blink jasper

in the redolent tension of silence.

19 july 1996

-dusk