Late in My Sleep
I am not afraid to sleep but
I am afraid to talk with you
I will go to bed and
I will talk to myself
I will dream in all languages
all at once
but only three will talk to me
penned as a palimpsest
I will sleep incomplete
and while I am alive as I sleep
I will forget what I think to be a moment
described in detail
a constant masquerade will
separate imagination from rationale
and you will be alone
when I begin to talk to you
and the moments will be
recursive and your eyes will close
and here there will be no more
languages and no more dreams.
David Marquard
pea river journal 
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