transition

what of the dream 

dispersed just as you wake

sensed for seconds

then almost impossible

to recall

is there cryptic meaning 

pressed through the cheesecloth

of dawn

so diffused 

that no more than a trace

remains

like worry

the struggle to recall

to salvage

with the desire to fall

back

to sleep

collide

the dream slides

like a childhood memory

into a moment of surrender

evanesces

and then

is forfeited to the provocation of waking

Barry DeCarli

February 15, 2019

On South Street

©Barry DeCarli

My photo.