I'm a Zen monk riddled with holes from a weird disease the government denies
is real. So as a protest, I stand naked atop a wall and let the air-sharks take me...
CAUTION: SURREAL SUICIDE
I'm just old enough to recall forests of fishbones and dragonflies on every roof...
The moon as an early gilled fetus. I feel like a half-developed creature walking around in your dry air...
The traditional figure is blindfolded, holding two crossed swords. I used crossed TV antennae...
Three friends in a garden pledge loyalty forever with a toast of the wine of the heart...
Floating in tears, have you noticed the other cups behind you, unspilled?
Giving up a wall of material treasure for the moonlit path...
The card confirming those silly fears are true. The nightmare is real. You're in trouble...
The card of excessive self-denial, whether compulsive or artistic or spiritual...
The card of fertility--and the pangs and effort of starting a new thing...
Mind and body integrated. S/he can hold up even the world-serpent that the gods couldn't lift...
CAUTION: ANDROGYNOUS CENTAUR BREASTS
The card of big messes, confused beginnings--and fertilization...
When the Birth card's reversed, the child clings to the womb like a burrow in a green meadow.
The card of force sparingly needed. The Knight says, "Sometimes ya gotta bust a few heads..."
The card of caring, caregiving, and compassion...
The sea-captain, baby bottle in hand... The card of the warm man, the nurturer...
It's time to tackle that unpleasant task. But so what? You know how. And you have gloves...
Some folks are dogs, bullying underlings, fawning on superiors. But when the Wizard's a Humbug...
Using the mind's blade humbly, minding ideas and people, clarity's disciple may not see her full power...
Humor's one of the big emotions--laughter's as loud and uncontrollable as crying or orgasm...
The card of driven leaders. It's so refreshing to hear someone honest and passionate. Right? Well...
The card of love. I'm not sure what genders the lovers are, but no matter...
When you scheme too hard you can end up "amazed": lost in the maze of alternatives...
True teachers and leaders do exist, with vision enough to make seeds (and people) sprout...
Deep in the strata inside you, gems lie waiting in the dark for this child to dig them free...
That moment when you recognize a kindred spirit, and realize he or she feels that way too...
The knight of creative fire who takes over when you've mastered technique and can let go...
You get to fill one tray. Guns sex jewels pot hamburgers TV God power thrills love? Choose!
The card of intuition, dreams--and asking. She knows all the secrets. And might just tell you, if...
How rare it is to meet the Outstanding whose thinking, sensing, feeling and intuition all work...
The card of fatigue and rest. Tarot's so primal--never a dull moment. Well, take a break...
Having (or living with) a sharp mind is like living with a unicorn. That horn can kill or heal...
In the cave, I chanted "Come Kama, Come Love..." and a procession of strange creatures came down the stone steps;
squirrels, peacocks, a blue birdlike being with golden headdress, and then the Goddess of Love. Her form shocked me...
Wayan dreams he and his sister grope toward sex in the kitchen, when two of her friends burst in...
Miriel dreams she's having sex with a boy from her choir, when two of her friends burst in...
CAUTION: FRUSTRATION, INCEST, CAUGHT IN SEX
A doctor lures me into his office. What he turns out to be scares me less than how I defend myself...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, ARACHNOPHOBIA
I dreamed our medieval football coaches blamed the ugly Potato Person for all evil...
CAUTION: NUDE POTATO
Miriel dreams of a green snake under her bed. Meanwhile her brother
Wayan dreams of a green poisonous snake under his bed...
I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls...
A huge bridge spans the Pacific; my depth perception reaches miles instead of mere yards.
A crowd worships a guru hidden in a tent on a pier. I don't trust him! He has hidden in tent...
CAUTION: THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE
A demigoddess and a wizard meddle with humans. But do even THEY know what they're assembling?
FERRY: the crossing is rough, but I'm warned I must find my own sea-legs...
BUZZ OFF: I step into a family photo, but I'm not welcome in the past...
My little son accidentally tears the tail off our goldfish. The wound
looks vaginal. The fish, moaning in pain, turns into my daughter...
We all wear magic beltbuckles. Twist one--your body stretches from squat to willowy. Except mine...
CAUTION: SEX, BODY-IMAGE DISTORTION
I'm a fly lured to a bright but sealed window. The only way out is to ignore the light
and brave the dark--and only when a door opens. Patience AND boldness...
It had been a weirdly mild winter day, but in my dream black storms loomed as I tried to build shelter...
A picture-poem experiment: one dream per stanza!
Five short dreams exploring the weight of culture on our animal selves...
I wanted spiritual guidance. A guide appeared regularly in my dreams for months, but then
vanished. I incubated a dream, and was told "you have a big job you forgot! Come back when..."
AL repeatedly drew a bizarre, recurring dream-guide named Kolchec; years later he met
SARA, who'd painted her dream-guide, a distinctive spook named--oh, take a guess...
CAUTION: WILL DISTURB ESP SKEPTICS
Last night I seemed in your embrace; you were about to die.
Today I wake into my place: you immortal, I...
While painting a tribute to my hero/mentor Caravaggio, I dream we meet. He talks of his art
as we walk a dark space full of living chiaroscuro scenes we can circle, see from all angles...
I try hard not to invade Margaret Mead's privacy, but I need her advice;
after I find a fruit true growing in a forgotten room, she unbends...
A dream of body parts--maybe, impossibly, alive--hung up like drying laundry. Von Trotta inserted it in a film
script to foreshadow a suicide, but seems deaf to any personal warning--as if it's not her dream at all...
Night. A hill town. Temples with huge stone statues. But the original figure looms
monstrous over the hills. Which is the threat? The giant, or the cult appeasing it?
1: Dad picks up Bigfoot; he bites off my ear. 2: Dad abandons me in a canyon full of wolves. 3: The man who
killed my family hands me his ax. 4: Bees move into my pillow. 5: A marionette with razor-nails lures me close...
CAUTION: OUCH