ADAM ADAM  

(A dream memory)

A siren wails.

I awoke with a start, trembling, 

surrounded by people,

alone, watching, waiting,

immobile.

I wrap my arms around myself, 

remembering.

People shift around and about:

cloudy marionettes in 

a neon-lit madness. 

I close my eyes

burdened by memories,

writing thoughts 

indelibly seared in my mind,

trancelike, 

shifting backward in time.

My eyes remain still, closed. 

Where am I going?

Why?

Where am I?

Lady, the marionette?

Mesmerized I slowly remember –

Adam... Adam...

please, come back. 

I love...

I remember now:

I am walking in my 

Mother’s garden...

I shall not worry.