The shade is pulled above our bed, and through

The silken hanging drapes the sun affixes

Its beam to cast our shadows on the blue,

The pale-blue, green-blue walls where color mixes

With a vibrant painting painted by your mother,

Of pink and white flowers in a vase

That seem to be finale of some other

Suspended history of time and place.

Imagine Wallace Stevens played by Bill

Murray and the emperor like a groundhog

Finding his way over a distant hill

For the first time after that repetitive slog

Of doing time in Plato's illusory cave,

Then waking up free, no longer a slave.

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