Sonnet XXXVII
by Ted Berrigan

It is night. You are asleep. And beautiful tears
have blossomed in my eyes. Guillaume Apollinaire is dead.
The big green day today is singing to itself
a vast orange library of dreams, dreams
dressed in newspaper, wan as pale thighs
making vast apple strides towards "The Poems".
"The Poems" is not a dream. It is night. You
are asleep. Vast orange libraries of dream
stir inside "The Poems". On the dirt-covered ground
crystal tears drench the ground. Vast orange dreams
are unclenched. It is night. Songs have blossomed
in the pale crystal library of tears. You
are asleep. A lovely light is singing to itself,
in "The Poems", in my eyes, in the line, "Guillaume
    Apollinaire is dead."