BREAKING FREE (photo) & AT THE BEACH (Or: How Low Can You Go) by Roswila

AT THE BEACH
(Or: “How Low Can You Go)

I watch myself – a large, dark brown, male
dog – get into a very brief but intense, noisy but
unbloody dust up with another dog – a smaller
light brown bitch; somehow I know we’re both
aware that The Shah, our Master, may have seen
our rebellious confrontation from his fancy
palanquin by the breezy water’s edge; despite
(or maybe due to) this unclarity the bitch and I
wander casually off the beach, each going our
own way; suddenly, I turn around and take a low
leap, landing right back at the beach, then crawl/
shimmy as low and slowly as I can across the
sand toward the lounging Shah, in abject
apology for the dog fight; I keep repeating this
leap/crawl maneuver as I near my Master;
then I see that the bitch is not far behind me,
she employing the same leap/crawl apology/
approach toward the imperious Shah; I cough
up sand as I leap and land for more crawling,
even though I realize I'm still no more certain
the Master witnessed our brief fight, but figure
it never hurts to cover one's butt by apologizing
to the powers that be for any show of
independence or power of one's
own, no matter how small or brief


[narrative on a dream of 7-28-18. Photo "Breaking Free" (7-7-09 3460v2) 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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