i

red gelatin leaves weighed the cold branches 

to curve

i saw things in my dreams. like this and like that.

like you and like him.

like nothing happened.

i saw a believer once.  sold for rain.  for winter.

for smoke rings and for teeth.

gnashing teeth.  

and i bid him fare freedom

and i saw it in my dreams.

how words dropped from words.. 

three became two 

became one.

I still know things.