Sole Proprietor and Only Inmate

Music: Fugue #8 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2
By J.S. Bach. Sequenced by Yo Tomita.

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Sole proprietor and only inmate. Even so, there are gardens I haven't Visited, rivers I bathed in too Early for dreams. I wander among Names, reveries long pressed into my album, Too precise to be anything but words, Yet behold a watermill I've never seen. Seldom is a garden inarticulate. Even the Earth, like a good patient, Vividly seductive on the couch, dreams Exactly as the therapist suggests. Nor do I hope to learn who tends my peonies.