Blink

Observing silently –
a tiled floor pattern

Sepulcher gray

                  concentric squares

                                        marbely flowers

and jumbled conics

                              Repeating

                    and

repeating

                           Closing eyes

                anticipation

     knowing darkness

                                      a placid moment

and now

                                                         there's a wall

surrounding me.

I can't get out   

         but I can breathe

I can move

                          I can imagine

amorphous figures forming around

me

A yellow alligator in a tophat melts

and 

forms into my father

(oddly)

Eyelids open.

Observing silently –
a tiled floor pattern