Let fall the tear of time

Here’s a poem of mine from about ten years ago:

Sonnet on a Line from Dylan Thomas

Let fall the tear of time, the sleeper’s eye

will tear the dreams of dramas unrehearsed;

will twitch upon the inward eye of verse

that everyone’s forgotten but the rhyme.

The sleeper’s retina records the scene

of tears and thunder raining on a room

torn down in life but sparkling on the screen

that’s lit within the sleeper’s fevered brain.

A creek where clotted foliage of fall

provided brown protection for the wren,

where timing saved the swallows from the sky

reflected in the surface’s teary plane.

The waking eye will fall upon the bare

dry creekbed birdless in the time dried air.