dream 100213
by m lewis redford
dream 100213
it’s time
to convene to assemble
to jostle and rank the rows and columns
of eternal hierarchy
quick
gather the children
wandering and playing about in an
underground car park
no
that’s not the way Elder
pushing the baby along the slushy ground
it cannot walk you have to
pick the baby up
hold its eyes with a smile
of fresh-morning greeting then hold its back and head
with palms and fingers
careful
gathered close folding it within your gaze
I will carry you little child, the Elder has gone
somewhere else now
I have
loved you but you are not mine
so I will set you down to the front of the gathering
for your rightful parents
we wait
you look around and wriggle
while members comment wisely on your cognitive
and motor development
but
the event doesn’t happen
so we take up partners to dance to the background music
waltzing round and round
breakdown wormhole: “I / am Spartacus”
career wormhole: twenty five / year career
dancing wormhole: splish splash squelch
dream wormhole: dream / 240897
society wormhole: the ghost with open wound
Beautiful care here. And happy to see a post from you, Mark, hope you are well.
… I just hope I can remember to live up to it; thank you; I am not well, so much, as becoming aware of how I am not well, and this is progress