worry dreams

Set aside the homework and get some sleep
Dream about missed deadlines lost in REM
Wake up!
Know you have the time
Many things to check off
it'll happen

Yep, dreamed about not getting my homework done on time. This semester is going to be fun!

someday

I'm going to go to Rome. While there, I'm going to meet a beautiful, intelligent Brazilian. We will hit it off right away and be joined at the hip, wink wink, for the rest of the trip. There will be tears and heartbreak when we say goodbye. We will both think that this is it. That we'll be lucky a thousand times over if we ever find what we had with each other. But it's not over. We won't be able to resist each other. We'll maintain a long distance relationship for a few months. I'll hop a plane to see her on a whim. She'll return with me. We'll be in disgusting, domestic bliss until I graduate. With my degree in hand, I will land a job in Brazil. She will have made me fluent in both Portuguese and Spanish by then. I will be very successful at my job. Her dancing and acting career will take off. She'll help me get my novel published. After five years, we'll relocate to New York. The city will have changed. We will have changed. But this is where we belong. And where we'll stay.

That's a helluva plan.

Of course it is. Step one now, book the ticket to Italy.

Dreams! Aspirations! Hopes! Goals! They are good.

dream

folding petals block the sun
of yesterday
kittens walk backwards looking for

she rolls
the wooden plank swallows her
into a golden see
far from

Playing with some images.

the good life

floating on the dock, hand trailing in the warm summer lake. the beat of waves against the posts.
the silence of a heartbeat
easiness of breath
this is what living is made for
a tap on the shoulder
light flooding in again
time and place again
you're sleeping at your desk again
dreaming at your desk again
drool drips off your thumb

A beach, a lake, a.... whatever. Somewhere not at work.

two ducklings

two ducklings born in the same water
a plastic one whose energy cannot be corked
a fluffy one kittenish in its cuddling
living in a human shadow
trying to become the adults they need to be
waiting for their parent to show them how

I had a weird dream last night which involved me getting in a fight with two anti-choice sorority girls on a Planned Parenthood bus trip and watching two ducks (a rubber duck and a "real" one) being born and being mine.

dream an infinite dream

She closed her eyes and began the dream.

A meadow of myriad greens waved to her, beckoning her to run in. In the middle, a bushy tailed squirrel paused to contemplate the nut in his mouth. She took off toward it. The cat always told her to have patience, to take her time, be sneakier.

The cat was a bitch.

The squirrel caught sight and smell of the charging mass and tore to and up the first tree he saw.

Why! Don't! You! Come! Down! barked the dog.

NothanksI'mjustfineuphere.

Fine!

She trotted back into the meadow, and a great itch started attacked her back. Her teeth couldn't quite reach, but just ahead was the perfect patch of dirt. Nothing beats the scratching power of your back on the dirt.

My dog is getting old. This is the start of what I imagine Doggy Heaven to be for her.