Diet of Dreams

My lodgings are perched at the seams
where a canvas of cloud islands leans.
All my life I have nibbled on air,
on a breeze, on a bird chirp, a song,
on a call or a bell or a gong.
I have fed on my speech all along.
The more hope, the less room for despair…
Watching dew-drops in quivering beams,
I am used to a diet of dreams.

Christina Egan © 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photograph: Christina Egan © 2014.