nine,ten,neversleepagain

  it's
    on
   the
   tip
    of
    my
tongue

so
close
to
the top

       of
       my
       memory

% vis-a-[vision]

it was enchanting
       enthralling
       enlightening
it was confusing
       converting
       confounding


?
      but
      what
          was
          it
                  !

last*night

vivid premonition
 nighttime vision
woke up
remembered it

     .

     .

     .

     .

   forgot

no;vacanc-y

last night
          i slept
                 and remember:
          nothing
tomorrow
        i sleep
               to remember:
        nothing

photon photon (photon)

there was something there
when the lights came on
it went away;
when the lights came on




/on came the lights when/

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dark

asleep

nothingness

spurned awake

the water: tepid

him disturbed

nothingness

asleep

dark

sofaraway

last night he dreamed of nothing
             peace



she, last night, dreamed of him
             anger