STARLESS (photomorph) & WHIRRING PROJECTORS (dream based free verse poem) by Roswila

WHIRRING PROJECTORS

always interesting, isn't it?
the dream detail one has trouble
remembering: I could blame today's
struggle to recall on the heat and humidity
last night that made for an uncomfortable
sleep, intruding as it did on the story line
each time I'd fall back to sleep
and continue with the confrontation

the story plays out in the same setting
as a dream of months ago: I'm at a nighttime
poolside party, hauling a handsome man
behind me by his large hand to look
at a book of photos a friend and I
had discovered in the bushes:

look at this woman's face, I say,
pointing to the full-color cover photo,
are you sure what you see in her
constantly changing expression
is what's actually there?

and is her expression even changing all
that much, or are you and I and everyone
else seeing what the whirring projectors
in our own minds layer over it: a thin, nearly
invisible, distorting movie of our own needs
and wants and fears flickering there at a safe,
long taken-for-granted distance like
cold star light on her unknown face


[free verse poem on a dream of 9-3-17 (posted 9-5-17). I was vaguely lucid (knowing one is dreaming, while one is dreaming), as I dreamed this. Evidenced by my briefly recalling a dream from months ago, within this dream.] Photomorph "Starless" (8-29-17 026v3) & Poem by Patricia Kelly (C) 2017

PLEASE NOTE: in most browsers you can click on the above image for a larger version. Also, the photo accompanying a post is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant aspect of the verse, similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku).

There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.

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until next time, keep dreaming,

[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
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