Dream Song 5

77 Dream Songs (1964)

Henry sats in de bar & was odd,off in the glass from the glass,at odds wif de world & its god,his wife is a complete nothing,St Stephengetting even.

Henry sats in de plane & was gay.Careful Henry nothing said aloudbut where a Virgin out of cloudto her Mountain dropt in light,his thought made pockets & the plane buckt.‘Parm me, lady.’ ‘Orright.’

Henry lay in de netting, wild,while the brainfever bird did scales;Mr Heartbreak, the New Man,come to farm a crazy land;an image of the dead on the fingernailof a newborn child.77 Dream Songs (1964)