The Dream’s Within Myself

 

I believe the Dream’s within myself

It’s the Law of my own true Being

The Untrampled Text of my Blood.

You’ll find your own words

Shining in your skull

Then you’ll know why Robert Desnos

Through snowflakes to the gas chambers

At Buchenwald in March, 1944

Read the palms of naked men

Predicating good fortune & happiness.

 

 

1987

 

 

[Published in Prairie Falcon.

© 1989 by Jim Cohn.] 

 

 

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Prairie Falcon
(North Atlantic Books, 1989)