Don’t expect comfort
from the steady dripping
on porcelain

like someone’s fingers on a drum
in a continent
you must sleep to visit.

It’s not so hard being here
in the land of sleepwalkers
where the stars are cemented in place

until you vanish with them.
That’s not really confusion.
It’s like being in someone else’s dream.

Everything will be
the way you want it
whether you know it or not.

– Stan Sanvel Rubin