Dreams Fade Into the Sunset

The trolling sun
mounts his caisson
ferries the svelte canvas
with its glazed pigments
and abstract figments

The orange discus
Ra's beacon to immortality
flings its ruddy face
into the flaming pit

Leaving a cerebral pyre
to filter the blithe oblations
and to burn away the dross
of the day's flittering dreams

Meringue tropes in blue skies
singed to Baked Alaska troughs
shadowed by burgundy ridges
smoking with imaginary sighs

A palling hangover shrouds
quiet vigil for the waking mind
to secede from the bridge
that vaunted its spirit
through the infinite spire
of the surreal kingdom