Walk, fire, unimaginative wretch - <br />Draw to me the daydream <br />Scene. Dreaming whilst awake, <br />Of palm tree trails and fields <br />Of tangerines. Those muddy <br />Childhood time travails, when nothing <br />Else was cared. I took the <br />Kissing dare, remember - <br />Doctor Pepper bottle twirling. <br />It found me, extemporaneous <br />Romance, fledgling testosterone, <br />Swirling as a snake in slow- <br />Mo, black and white. It bit me <br />In a blast of <br />Freeze-frame recollection - <br />Iodine and silver photograph <br />Materializing through magnesium <br />Smoke - flash - bang! <br />And there I was again, scowling <br />Back at me. <br /> <br />O wretched are <br />These palm tree trails and <br />Tangerines, to tease me <br />From a hum-drum stage today - <br />This fluorescent, no-view room. <br />Redrawn and revised, <br />Romanticized and faded - <br />Coal walk fire, associative, <br />No-name by-line sound bite <br />Memory - milkshake spoon-straws <br />Prod my history, drawing <br />Happenstance - teeth and weeds and <br />Bullfrog races, creek fish, <br />Cane rods, red streak bobbers - <br />Daydream monkey - <br />Nut box hand trap - <br /> Can’t let go from here. <br /> <br />*From the book: Vapours of Promise, ©2004 - ISBN 1-59526-352-7<br /><br />Kelly Vinal<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/daydreaming/
