Varsha Shah Dreamscape
In sleep
I am a whole,
a holy one.
See me a grass blade
from any angle
set beside time—
I am a whole without parts,
a holy one.
Sometimes a fruit in the ground,
a free hand holding sky.
Sometimes a breast suckling wind,
a mouth watering earth.
I roam in love to test this and that,
shredding, scrabbling words
to feed alphabets to trees;
hear them speak.
See gods come to shelter in this wholeness.
I marry the grass to my chair,
offer my blood to honey bees, and
become the laughter of whispers
the size of leaf’s sighs.
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