Combing The American Dream(s): Two Poems

familiar distance 

as that one tear 

welled in my chest

and the sun shone 

a morning promise; 

as memory music 

played branches 

to a breeze; 

windy leaves rustled 

a familiar melody, 

one that I know but 

have never 

heard.

Photo ©2011 R. Burnett Baker 

came revelation

along the arch of dawn 

and horizon of wind 

came revelation and 

my awakening from 

the damning sleep 

of languished reason,

bundled against the 

daily gale,

to forge solo into 

garish constructions 

of every others'

dream. 

Poems ©2011 R. Burnett Baker