"I Dream the Night"

    I dream the night
        and a corduroy vest pocket
        watch inlaid with gold and a
        sterling silver chain.

    I dream the night
        and four quarters of the moon
        light streaming through
        plantation style venetian blinds.

    I dream the night
        and a tasseled quilt in the brown
        stone row-house bedroom bed
        loved to frayed and tattered strips.

The rhythm and poetic style here, composed of visual images and using compound words broken to separate lines, was inspired by an old and long-time friend, Jennie L. I originally intended this to have several additional stanzas...perhaps another day.