Mind Streams (Work in Progress)

Mind Streams (Work in Progress)

Mind streams-
small tributaries
of life's large river
appear independently
two hours before waking
each morning. Some days
only a solitary stream flows;
other days they all flow together
like a choir of morning meadowlarks.

Today the war tributary
A chaotic canal
invades my dreams.
Shattered glass,
Strewn corpses,
Burned-out buildings
Weeping widows
Fallow farmhouses disturb
My peaceful R.E.M. sleep.
Apparitions of bearded men
Turbaned in white pajamas
Like the ghosts of Ramadan past
Swirl like clouds over a golden dome