The Windows

Funeral dream
"We’ll put them all down in the great book of sleep."

"You may be dead but
Don’t stop loving me."

In memory
"Don’t hold yourself cheap."

All the windows came to him in tears.

The chestnut tree by the North River.   Its tears.

Dream        A bricklayer.       Your father.

Dream       "If you shoot someone
I will walk out on the ocean floor
and throw the gun away."

Dream       "When I am of doubt..."
Dream       "Go clear."

-- Jean Valentine
Door in the Mountain: New & Collected Poems