Title: Kirk's Dream:  Recurring Nightmare
Author: Jane (jat_sapphire)
Contact: jat_sapphire@yahoo.com
Series: TOS
Rating: G
Type:  poem
Codes: K
Summary:  A nightmare Kirk had first in his mid teens, and went on having.

Disclaimer: Except for this heading, there's no explicit mention of copyrighted material, but the character of Kirk belongs to Paramount.  Please don't sue me.
 

Recurring Nightmare
 

In the long moon's shadow a stranger moves
silently.

Only the cat-smooth footfalls in my sleep
show where he has been.

I have run down my deep dream halls
until my legs were stiff under the blankets

but I never got away, no,
and I never saw him

I need new eyes, prisms, to unfold
the rainbow -- I need eyes like moons

Milky light spills and streaks across the view
honing the grass to silver, but the shadows

lurk under bearded trees as black as pits
holes in the mirror world, holes in my sight

a stranger moves in the garden
skulks under the trees

and makes my mirrors lie

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