THE PALACE AT 4 AM

Orange lamp shade
over antique lampbase,
and sketchbook
next year’s performance piece
after Robert Wilson’s Einstein On the Beach
quiet telephone, bath talc,
and glass rendered so well.
(like the coverlet with the ferns
“Every leaf drenches the touch”
The ashtray reminds of smoking days
long gone
Orange shade against crazy wall paper
light streak over bed
pondered by each move
of a new performance.

Punched up pillow leaned against
unmade bed
“Every fold remembers the last shift of sensual body
working – thinking – drawing –
till the early hours of the morning
when sun clambered in
hit round mirror over dresser
and streaked down funky wallpaper design