sleep theater - Project StumbleUpon
sleep theater
by Wolfgang Nibori
take the confusing, make it real - wizardy
smears of color like clown make-up covering
shielding reality with fantasy, dancing upwards
as sleep-thoughts do, mind-pictures, movie-crystals
in mine i see wood, all wooden rooms of slick polish
hardwood mirrors reflecting opaque characters
men and women with white faces, no eyes, noses, mouths
standing in formal fashions, waiting as mannequins are prone
talking but soundless, total silence seeming strange
not out of place or sinister, simply ballet of the brain
conveying messages i’ve yet to decipher
codes condensed, switched forward, still singing silently
looking back i understand the confusion of a small one
yearning to translate the abstract into life’s concrete
Inspired by: Wicked Watercolors Re-Imagined
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