An Eclipse Of My Mind Poem by Leonard Dabydeen

As always
my mind floated across
the equator of dreams
bright as naked moonlight
sprinkling starry spots
of luminescence
glowing in things moving





or pretending mobility
or things unmindful
to be intimate with silence
a conjugal rhapsody
in the constant of death
and then
on this estranged night
I let an uncanny dream
take amorphous shape
like a cluster of clouds
to overcome my ambience
and obscure my mind
overshadowing me
like a browser
and forming
an eclipse of my mind
that will last in one phase
of memory.