Traders were vanishing. Newly installed Viceroy Zhu fasted, focused, and dreamt
the gods sent him a riddling poem. Each line suggested one word--together, they...
CAUTION: BRUTAL ORGANIZED CRIME
A Marin girl finds a dirty secret in the school library--they discard the unpopular.
She kinda identifies with the discarded books. And discarded people...
Poem from a book on how love can save lives & souls, read in two dreams of a Renaissance astrologer's library...
She dreamed she'd written a wise and beautiful poem. Half asleep she scribbled it down. Awake, she found...
CAUTION: HOGGEREL
A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside...
Fat Max eats with Heinrich the guard on Tuesdays. He talks too much. You and I are hungry. Tonight...
The poem appeared in the dream as it appears on the page--words, even punctuation...
CAUTION: DEATH CAMP, DEATH PLOT
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree (at least till that visitor from Porlock barged in)
CAUTION: POET ON PAIN MEDS
I dreamt an epic poem on a sinister ruined city now home
only to reptiles. I woke with at least a hundred lines, but...
Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message...
I don't understand this poem's symbolism or even its style. It came to me whole, in a dream...
Will you walk in the fields, love? / Let us be gone.
The tall grass will wave to thee / Fairest one...
Dou dreams he marries Lily; when a monstrous snake attacks her huge family, he reluctantly hosts
them all... when he wakes, they turn out to be bees driven from their hive by a (very real) snake...
Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar...
A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream...
I often dream of words forming on a page as their images dance around me. Here's an example...
You cannot stay forever / on this side of the river
with darkness coming over / and salt has lost its savor...