It was a dream and you were walking through a field of hosannas

and the immense sea rocked with the blue voices of the dead

when you stretched out supine to dream lotus dreams which I 

could not read.

A cathedral of sky arched overhead. I wanted to know

whether your eyes were closed. I wanted your dream or song or prayer,

o I wanted, and the sin grew brighter and the breeze fairer

that immaculate day

unfolding like a poem, like a song I half-remember and ask,

Did we sing it once a long time ago, did we sing it together, 

was it our hymnal, our beautiful tragic chorus, our anthem, 

the day like a new white canvas,

and here I add marine blue, and there cobalt blue, and a cloud in

    amber,

and the light is transparent yellow, and the brush makes a sound

like wind over sand, but there are no whitecaps, no sailboats,

only canvas and paint and the body’s dance.

No kite. No gull. No things. Everything goes.

No dream, no dreamer. No certainty, no doubt.

Only the infinitely blossoming hosannas of the emptiness within,

echoing the emptiness without.