On my fabulous journey
I saw warriors grappling in the bowels of 2nd Avenue.
I saw puzzled poets with leaky umbrellas.
I saw whole schools of highschool teachers side stroking westward.
off the coast of never neverland
I saw kings mowing lawns in yellow dungarees.
I saw planets bouncing together like maladjusted pingpongballs
I saw angels playing the outfield in Boston and making errors.
I saw thighs closing like scissors on many bedspreads.
I saw manacled geniuses in Harlem and in the Vatican and in the
Pentagon sleeping in their chains.
I saw seagulls and other birds justify everything with great.
splattering swooping inspired runs on various penthouses.
I saw the seagulls prudently returning to the sea.
I saw my own true love standing in the midair between Moses and Elias
and I have seen my true love’s face glow.
with a strange and radiant light
I saw horizons and housetops and sunsets that you will never
see from hilltops that you will never know purely.
in the hope that you might someday know and have given
up and come back my food ran out but I’ll return to all
that and some I cannot tell for
once
I saw the unseen and I felt a single silent secret silver hand
touch me
as never before