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last night i dreamed that i was dreaming of you

and from a window across the lawn

i watched you undress

wearing your sunset of purple tightly

woven around your hair

that rose in 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

a light goes on and the door opens

and a yellow cat runs out on the stream

of hall light and into the yard