The Rub

You’re almost to the bottom
Of dreaming, so you suffer
Only two kinds—the sleeping

And the waking. You don’t know
Yet, although your waking dreams
Suspect, that there are others,

That, like everything in this
Wavering universe, dreams
Seem singular and finite,

But are, in sum, collective
And escalating away
Into infinite series.

When you wake from waking dreams,
You’ll have three categories of dreams
Within four, then within more.