Milky Way Dreamer Poem by Alan James Roll

And she is floating, drifting out, above
The fading rooftops and the concrete haze
Of dirty tenements; a fume choked dove
Shedding city clothes, upward lifting gaze
Toward the milk white seam that streaks the night.
Embraced by sighs that ghost her pillowed head
A glitter shower eclipses street lights:
Snowfall of light-years on her dreaming bed.
Free-fall confetti bathes the cosmic bride,
A million little pearls, sweetly shifting;
She moves a tiny hand, turns on her side,
And this brittle flower blinks on waking,
And these eyes that once were city shrouded,
Are Pleiades bright and nebula clouded.