Abstraction
        (Mark Rothko)

Grotto of sleep, dark,
not black but soft,
deepening to violet
below dream, to underwater
cave, imageless, edgeless,
the dream of not
dreaming, floating
in corporeal darkness,
down below down, a weightless
weight, the self dissolved
in a sea change, strange
caverns gathering night.

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