Die Dreaming

a voluntary crawl
across a goodly length
of superheated stones and coals
terminated in blissful
and blisterless arrival
to sit, a stunned supplicant,
at her embroidered hem.

she not so much stood
but there was rooted,
while seeming to float.

a nakedness about her hung,
(though richly robed)
while sang she strongly
of sacred and ancient achings.

a wholeness of surrender
pulsed and swole
the melliflous musculature
of her song-supple throat,
the melody's passage through
possessing her thoroughly.

the world entirely then became
a songful, palatial place.

thus the fevered effervescence
of a dehydrated brain
just before the death-gasp came
and left him cadaver-

a faceful of desert sand
and a hand outstretched
towards an unachieved oasis.