I Lie Alone

I lie alone: I breathe, I think, I dream. I wake in nightmare at the dawn of sleep To silences unspeakable as noise Filtrating solitude that has me creep Under the cover to snuggle in the flesh Of my beloved in drowse, as on the shelves The moonlight whitens Frost and Foscolo. I lie alone, yet lie with many selves.

I lie with all my selves : I breathe, I think. I dream, not sleeping, as if dream were all; I drown whole worlds and it is I I drown; My third eye oversees the ritual : My soul would fly my flesh, my flesh my soul Myself World-Light for the enormous Light I catch a glimpse of in my universe. I lie alone in an unending night.

I lie alone, my senses felled as slash. I breathe, and breath is all, as being is ; The moon picks up the Poems of Li-Po, As I return again to certainties : No end to endless change. I lie alone, Hushed on the surface of a dazzling stream: The finite and the infinite are one. Awake once more, I breathe, I think, I dream.