Thai Ngoc
Since I arrived he hasn't slept
In the liquid dark while others dream
He builds a consciously unconscious world
To meet the infinite detachment of the night.
Fields of sugar burn beneath his gaze,
Sweet smoke twists
to the beat of funeral drums
Dissolves in pools he's dug,
Shot through with fish
Cascading slowly like a shower of sparks.
Since I arrived I've slept
More vividly than I've lived,
Swimming breathless through another sea.
Or sitting on the edge, toes tipped with blue,
Watching words rise upwards,
Silver-backed.
In the liquid dark while others dream
He builds a consciously unconscious world
To meet the infinite detachment of the night.
Fields of sugar burn beneath his gaze,
Sweet smoke twists
to the beat of funeral drums
Dissolves in pools he's dug,
Shot through with fish
Cascading slowly like a shower of sparks.
Since I arrived I've slept
More vividly than I've lived,
Swimming breathless through another sea.
Or sitting on the edge, toes tipped with blue,
Watching words rise upwards,
Silver-backed.
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