illustration: JOURNEY TO THE SHORE OF THE DREAMLESS SEA

AFTERNOON ON POMEGRANATE BEACH


You looked so damned angry

gathering the tears

from your eyes

only to throw them into the wind

towards the Dreamless Sea


I asked you where you were headed

on such a lonely afternoon

You said

it doesn't matter

they're all the same colors anyway

then you grew a pair of silver wings

just to see if people

really live above the clouds

and I said to you

as you lay beneath the flowers

It must have been a long way down.