In Dream

WALTER H. KERR

IN DREAM

In Dream, at the confluence of the said

and the unsaid, a landscape of wordshape

and lettercurve astonishes the dead,

that is to say, the Sleepers whose thoughts scrape

syllables from some waking Word to light

their journey out of Night. The view, unique

to this dimension, unfolds, for erudite

travelers, a choice of trail, so to speak,

unparalleled in all Existence. One

moves along these shapes, these cursive ranges,

in epic adventures, loves, and tongue-spun

mythology, joining, in Godchanges,

those other tourists of the Mind whose haste

to get there has left a whole world untraced.