asemic maps 53 -54

 

Asemic poem 63

sleeping in a dictionary

In insomnia’s night, the dark tosses and turns over wide-eyed sheets – the bedside light is turning over the big dictionary –

 

the unabridged bulk is clutching antonyms of sleep, flipping through pages of undefined dreams, encountering retinas of meaning staring at the back of the skull –

 

brain-sparks skitter across the pathways, jumping crickets with accented syllables seek the entomology of rapid-eye-movement –

 

the marching metaphor bands loudly cross the dense lexicon of lucid somnambulists, echoing in the book’s binding, the patter of dead parrots, clinging to the holes in a starless sky,  –

 

a retinue of offered broken rhyme looks for reason in a landscape of fragmenting ellipsis-

 

punctuated particlized phonemes impede meandering morphemes seeking symbolization in a cacophony of parable, the allegory flickering in the upper corners of the room is stuck in cobwebs of air and eyelids-

turn the page.

 

Collage prose poem derived from:

Sleeping with the Dictionary

By Harryette Mullen

past work revisited

asemic map 50

beyond the blue horizon, those who make their living from  out-doors, driving to work on hydroelectric dams, sing merrily