adorned

[witness_light]

i wonder if i could wear
my dreams

like this trendy new t-shirt
slid off my shoulders
and butterflied...

if i could weave my cotton pajamas
to silken folds of ivory
over slender, elven limbs

if my cheap box spring could acquire
the pillared grace of an antique
four poster bed
curtained with gauze & starlit

if the visitations of dark shadows
at bedtime, their otherworld
caresses could transform

an awkward little girl into
a kept secret,

a memory from childhood like a flicker of white light

i wonder if i could wear
my dreams.