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No Escape


Poet’s sleep

with their memories

to hate or to love

Voices unanswered

the night’s

turtledove

Darkness remembers

what daylight

forgets

As dreamers

reenter

— what twilight begets

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2018)

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Kurt Philip Behm

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