I opened the cabinet
To grab some nails
And a hammer
To hang a piece of art

I saw the bottle
Of glue
And almost grabbed
That too

As I remembered …

First, that
I had broken my glasses
And needed the glue
To fix them

And second, that
It was only in a dream

A dream, which I had not
Until that moment
Even remembered
Having had

Only in that dream
Had my glasses
Been broken

And I did not
In the same world
In which
I needed the nails
And hammer

For the art
As yet, unhung

Need the glue
For the glasses, which
Were never broken
In any world
Other than
That
Of my dream

June 22, 2021 at 05:55AM