Dreams of Tomorrow
by Andrew Becker

our dreams taste sweet,
like buttered english muffin saturday mornings
and yellow cornbread sunshine,
warm to the touch –
like a child’s hand
they live and dance,
like nighttime ripples across a pond,
soft and slow,
and intimate two-step
the moonlight draws them out,
helps them sing
while we listen, carefully

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