Watch her disappear

Last night

I dreamed that I was dreaming of you

And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress

Wearing a sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair

That rose and strangled ebony curls moving in a yellow bedroom light

The air is wet with sound

The faraway yelping of a wounded dog

And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak

Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat

light goes on and a door opens

And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard

wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air

I hear your champagne laugh

You wear two lavender orchids one in your hair and one on your hip

string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dust

Circling the lake in a slow dipping halo

And I hear a Banjo tango

And you dance into the shadow of a Black Poplar Tree

I watched you as you disappeared

I watched you as you disappeared

I watched you as you disappeared...