Last night I dreamt

Last night I dreamt

that somebody loved me

– The Smiths

It was an intense black-and-white

dream

Whoever loved me did not

reveal herself, but I knew

it was an older woman, black-haired,

visible more like a shadow under

a tree for a fleeting moment

I knew more about the tree –

it was a birch, it had that striped

trunk of birches and their whispy

branches, bare

as it is winter

I lay awake for some time

after this dream, wondering

what had taken me away

to a cold nordic place,

for

that much I knew, and to

someone’s unrevealed longing

– Johannes Beilharz (© 2023)

Published on April 18th, 2023