A DREAM REMEMBERED

I remember a dream

of sunlight melting

into twilight shadows

at the hacienda door

Then, the sudden strum

of guitars,

the whirl and swirl

of fanciful dance,

a rhythmic drumming

clip of heels on stone,

high light laughter

and flash of white teeth

a-gleam as stars floated down

And I remember awakening

to a slow, hazy shimmer

of rainbow dawn

and the misting, fading pulse

of a strange and wonder-filled dream