The Book Of Nightmare - Finale Poem by Daniel Brick

Or was this simply an occurrence
in that zone where night vision
has merged Dream and Nightmare
into one experience, in which
nothing of either is fully lost,
in which the extremes of both are
occluded, and we humans are given
a respite from the life of the heroic
endeavors and the compromises of
comic sleight of hand. Enjoy this
intermission while it lasts. I am
once again holding many things
tightly in my clenched grip.