...

[[...of Machado's dream ]]
.
In orchard gloss, icy sheen
......... [reflections of music
....................... in cold jars];

....a Chopin mazurka
......reaches his ears


it’s as if [& listen closely]

tempo anointed quiet fronds
with a thick
............................residue


...................*

the somnambulist will
say--after the dispelled haze

of restless sleep--
“¡No recuerdo!”

[no violas to stroke despair--
........his pandurate neck

less & less the resemblance
...of childhood fantasy

even less
.....of play]


(first appeared in Listenlight 13, 2007)