This Town That Glows

this town i see in my dreams
is a town of penthouses and subway stations
steel and glass houses glowing by night
lightning you can sense with your eyes closed

the women i dreamed of sleeping with in college
are all gathered in the college library
all in their teens and twenties     reading to each other
from the books that will be written by their grandchildren

	dreams in this town are things of fever
	demon lovers     their backs turned to the banality
	of the stolid background of the merely physical

	if they’d reappear as trains in the subway of my gut
	or confess to having loved me or even someone like me
	i could levitate in the night     through the unsighted emptiness

from Yew Nork (2014)