Elysian Beds Comments

Elysian refers to a pagan paradise and beds suggests sleep and dreams, so I take this poem to be a flood - a deluge even - of dreams and visions and visitations of possible or impossible paradises. Who can judge whether a dream is nonsense or higher sense? You take a universal outlook and put all of them in your poem, and perhaps let time sort them out or the later experiences of the dreamer, which will amplify some of these dream-paradises and dispel others. Being wide-awake as I read this poem, I could respond to some of these images in a creative way. For example the references to Fellini and Rimbaud suggest specific visions, like Rimbaud's I CONNECT TWO STARS WITH A ROPE AND DANCE BETWEEN THEM. But it may be better to let the images work their own magic and not over-interpret them. Your poem is a kind of alchemy and we must be patient while the process of refining occurs and not try to rush what moves by its mysterious currents to its fulfillment.