"High Noon"

Dreams Illuminated
---- Big Frank Dickinson

Wrapped in blue, she is staring out through
The open doorway in this dreamlike setting
Where the noonday sun drops down with minimal
Shadows striking the white clapboard house

Showing its features: peaked roof, curtained
Windows, red foundation, and erect brick chimney.
Desire is illuminated in
This dream of total isolation:

No vegetation surrounding this house,
No path to its front door, and behind
A flat and featureless horizon dominated
By dreamy wisps of clouds against a blue sky

Of the same color as her long ankle-length gown
Open down the front and with her left arm
Bent and reaching inside to touch her breast
As if to know the need that brought her here.

With her head tilted slightly to the right
She is looking at something within herself.
Out here one single shadows from the steep
Roof has fallen at an equally sharp angle

To point at her bare toe which is at
The threshold of exiting the dark interior.
Full illumination waits outside where
Dreams are cast aside and shadows fried.