LOOKING IN ON THE DREAM (photomorph) & LOPSIDED LOPING (on a dream) by Roswila

LOPSIDED LOPING

the last safe homes left in the debris of this destroyed
world of cities: two old three-story wood-frame houses,
on opposite sides of the single surviving city block,
connected by over-lapping, large back yards; in both
houses reside extended families -- created by mixes of
genes and chosen affiliations -- two distinct groups
that interact only on the blended playing field of their
back yards; as I watch the dream unfurl, a small dark
haired boy climbs off the back porch of the home
on the left, limping and then running rapidly if
lopsidedly across the wide yards toward the tumble
down porch of the other house; I somehow know
this sprint of his is the start of a running game
he's played many times before -- with or without
the participation of family or neighbors --
even as I wonder about the essential wound
that must underlie this back and forth,
lopsided loping


[a dream of 12-5-18. Photomorph "Looking In On The Dream" 11-2-17 011v4c) 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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