Internal Splendor

(Not In Xanadu)

Internal splendor of the temple of light
hypnagogic hallucination just
as the prow of sleep cuts the sea of dream
in the dark voyage of night's mystery

internal splendor of a temple of light
beams of bright hewn with no need of iron
soaring beams of light, no dust, and so smooth,
that roof over the vast space of silence

poor Kublai, Khan of your lost …