To write a poem I dreamed an undreamed dream
The woods in France deformed by dead young men
A nightmare complex in its perplexed themes
In our dream the narrative has means
To make those killed communicate again
To write a poem I dream an undreamed dream
Later, in another war, trains steam
To take the “insect” Jew, no longer “man.”
A nightmare simple in its evil themes
The little pearls we half see, as we scheme
The evasions we ignored but which remained.
We read a poem, we dream an undreamed dream
Who we are and who we might have been
At 4 am in isolated pain
The Nightmare Complex, come to share your screams
Can any see the world as poets aimed
To recreate the moment where we change?
To write a poem embodies sufferers’ dreams
Nightmares dark and piercing,mobs that maim
