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Recorded Reading (0:55): https://www.dropbox.com/s/5r8s06y5ohbg58p/the%20dream.mp3?dl=0

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the dream

we fell asleep
in one another’s arms and slept
the sleep of the beloved
sweet and peaceful
pillowed in the shifting sands
a child’s small boat
on some familiar pond

whilst all about
the winds of heaven raged
damned lonely crept
from cold bed to cold shower
mothers weeping, kings unthroned
injustice done on every hand

ageless lovers thus have slept
so tightly twined
the sleeping cannot separate
and we sleep on
together
in our dream

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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