Lucifer's Dream

by Jay (Lather. Rinse. Repeat.)

Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 13:51:06 -0700 (MST)

skull flaps open
no blue sky
pours in

just a black paper
mountain, convex
as a wheel
or an egg.

i am glowing
rust colored
from the feet up, pressed

like a flower
into sequined wall, colored
by the ember
sun.

she is a numb ocean
no longer dangling
from my back pocket.
why is it so dark? she asks.
i answer with snow's
silence:
all fires
are blanketed
and smothered
and cold
and all fires
are shards
of dreams
i can't remember.

i vomit up the world.