The Dream of the Poet

Into the Image: August Poetry Prompt

Paul Cézanne, The Kiss of the Muse, circa 1863, Wikimedia Commons

To sleep — perchance to dream*
in color like the technicolor Joseph
secretly swishing synonyms
from figuratively speaking lips

fluttering in — stealthily, telepathically
through the window, an open crevice
of his psyche as he slumbers —
her night has just begun —…