[Moodpomes: Calendar of Correlatives] <br /> <br />(from 'Stars To Ring' in Owl Light) <br /> <br />Part V (Nightmare) <br /> <br />In punitive dreams, a styptic dust <br />Smarts in the membraned dark of sleep: <br />A sheen of crows with luffing wings <br />Lifts from a ruined elm and wheels <br />About a harrowed vault of night <br />To punish dreams with rabid beaks, <br />Ripping tongues from the mouths of bells <br />And wicks from the eyes of stars. The lash <br />That whips the mind is mostly mind.<br /><br />William F Dougherty<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/night-crows/
