VOLUME 1: ISSUE 5
WINTER 2022

Poetry

‘DIMDUMDIM’

DAWN IS BRIGHT DUSK IS DIM DOOM IS INBETWEEN

You are not asleep.  You are a photograph of sleep. You

are in a movie of actors acting as if asleep.  You are in a

movie of actors really sleeping.  You may be dreaming of

sleep.  You may be a person dreaming that he is a person

sleeping.  You are in a state the locals have convinced you

is sleep.  This is imitation sleep.  Passing itself off as sleep.

It is not even a good wax figure of sleep.  Certainly not the

twin of sleep, whose name you know.  Even you yourself

do not believe you are asleep.  Your sleep despises you,

like a fox.  Your sleep fights you like a fighting partridge,

with beak and feet and wings.  You die.  This is sleep.