SOMEHOW IT ALL HANGS TOGETHER (photomorph) & THREE BLIND MICE (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

THREE BLIND MICE

all three of you familiar men
traipsing casually through my dreams
last night, not a one of you, not one,
exposing who you are (neither literally,
nor metaphorically); not even the two
of you looking for something from me,
declare yourselves openly, and the one
I want the most to understand and even
go after (in my subtle -- nay, call a spade
a spade, anxious, halting way), even he
assumes that all he does and says is
obvious ... well, the only thing that says
to me is that not one of you is aware of,
much less believes in my sensitivity that
like a glass-smooth lake dimples or tosses
under the passing winds, registering the
brush of what lives at the far edges of your
consciousness: an entire universe, way back
there in each of you; hell, I'd hazard a guess
there are unnumbered universes stretching out
endlessly, deep inside of everyone -- yes, to
be clear myself, I'm not yearning after express
and detailed knowledge of each and every unique
cosmos teasing from within the three of you like
the lightly barbed, feathery fingers of ghosts:
just that you stop posing long enough to peer
inside and see their massive patterns yourselves,
then offer me a glimpse, make some attempt to
share a bit of the reality you harbor, speaking
to me in whispery, strange languages from the
distances of our interactions, begging inter-
pretation like hieroglyphs on the stone walls
you present to the world, or endless sheaves of
printed computer code, or a midnight Caribbean
sky filled with more stars than this city-girl's
ever seen, impressing upon my naked eyes that
they cannot be touched


[free verse poem on dreams of 6-5-18. Photomorph "Somehow It All Hangs Together" (5-13-18 034v2f) by Roswila]

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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