For Joseph Cornell
- Dream (for Joseph Cornell)
I.
These magical boxes create universes, crack imagination.
What dreams live, grow, transgress, manifest? What memories
are evoked within the whispering annals of ocean white fluff?
Of all of the glittering magma, where lies the immense opening
into the other side of possibility stepping off into the unknown ether
of the one dreaming, the one dreamed of…
II.
Within these tiny capsulated jars are held the whispered
secret, the unspoken wish, the magnified realm of star-glinted
machinations upon this filament of flowering cloud wisped
past the illuminated sound of heart beat, last breath gasped,
left and lingered past the representation of love lost/gained/
restored/repaired/reciprocated…
- III.
Telepathic insurrection of dreams left uncharted/untraveled, bursting
with the velocity of volcanic magma, of black holes sucking
through the chasm of hope, clawing through the syncopated rhythm of
heartbeat unclenched against this weather-beaten stroll of leg & foot against
pavement; walking towards a future initiated by each heel, ball, toe
away from this makeshift canopy of awake…
© Monica J. Brown