Bad Alchemy

I dream Hermaphrodite & I sit up

all night our eyes on the horizon

of a wobbling bowl.

Heads in hands we ponder dregs

the bowl contains

a liquid's left putrescence

after being drained.

(What we feel we have to solve

is why the dregs have not dissolved)

When I wake I wonder what it means;

am I bad alchemy? It seems

I image Self unmixed, a risk,

in a dish for drinking

Fluid with a strongly stinking

sediment - is that what it meant?

Am I hermaphrodite?

Neither one nor quite the other?

(What we feel we have to solve

is why the dregs have not dissolved)