sun fading

dancing away from reality as the sun leaves for the day..

haze of leftover sunshine inches in its drunken pace

sweeping hollow walls with levels of gold

slow and staring, every page swallowed

by the mellow eye refracting and retracting

a montage of images in scrambled light

projecting the dreams of others across my cornea

panthers winding around barber poles, grinning

a restless embryo attempting to pry through the womb

roads curved and endless, numbers licking the asphalt

jumping from the clock, which now stands naked amongst clouds

and i find myself dreaming these things by myself

curled under a subsiding menagerie of thoughts

wondering where the past five minutes had gone