Rousted from buxom dreams, hunched like a tramp, she crept along the thin knife’s edge, then curled, petal-soft, averting pursuit.
Archive for the ‘Dreams’ Category
Innocent, this need for breath
Posted in Aging, Dreams, Rock formation, Transformation, Women on October 3, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Before I Slice the Cake
Posted in Dreams, Language, Legacies, Longing on July 23, 2021 | 2 Comments »
I blink my eyes shut, breathe in a rushed wish, raise my eyelids and blow out the candle. I am embarrassed, wonder if I’ve chosen a good-enough wish, what others will think, fake having made a wish when my mind draws a blank.
Winged Creatures
Posted in Dreams, Legends and Mythology, The Soul on August 14, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
I am weary of those who trod and plod shuffle or flip-flop slap concrete squares and black top oval tracks white arrows conducting wheels to one side feet to another.
The Language of Color
Posted in Bible Story, Dreams, Falling in Love on August 12, 2018 | 1 Comment »
I dreamt of the dreamer-son much-loved long-awaited wrapped in a chromatic cloak of words, envisioning spirits ascending and descending the ephemeral ladder, connecting earthly striving and eternal longings.
Recurrence
Posted in Dreams, Love, Poetry on January 22, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
My mother dreams of walking the mausoleum’s corridor searching for her name among the eye-level inscription plates petite crypts holding entombed breasts. It’s been more than 30 years since the era of battling early stage breast cancer with radical mastectomy – without reconstruction. Still she dreams of being reunited, made whole.