flashbulb

i woke up and
forgot where i was
the world hung suspended by its aether
spread warm over and of me
in the dark unconscious
spillway of half-decomposed thought
and everything that led
me heavy to this place
gone, forgotten
in a burst of purple cloud
heralding both the beginning and
end of this
journey
i remember stars
and a vast violet marsh
and the colors a sunset
vomits up after
a dark empty tearstained day
and being held
by the very sky
suspended by my aether
only one
only
only.
forgotten in twenty minutes
what thirty years pressed into
me.
i'll see you again
(this i'm
sure about)
when i
sleep