Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you   And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress   Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair   That rose in strangled ebony curls   Moving in a yellow bedroom light   The air is wet with sound   The faraway yelping of a wounded dog   And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak   Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat   A light goes on and the door opens   And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard      A wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air   I hear your champagne laugh   You wear two lavender orchids   One in your hair and one on your hip   A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk   Circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo   And I hear a banjo tango      And you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree   And I watched you as you disappeared   I watched you as you disappeared   I watched you as you disappeared   I watched you as you disappeared