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The Chaparral of Time

Dreamed 2008/10/21 by Wayan

THAT DAY

My back aches and loudly pops. Inflamed from overwork.

My fellow dreamworker Xanthe calls. She's joined a group that visualizes their heart's desire. Xanthe's: to draw again, learn to paint, dream intensely, yoga and tai chi--to feel good in her body. That's all! No ambition out in the world.

Xanthe asks something peculiar. "Don't you ever wish, or visualize, or use your will? I've known you decades and never seen you do it." She's right. I won't. Careful not to. I will not to use my will! Like fasting--abstaining from volition! Why?

Next, my OTHER shamanic colleague calls--Mark. He's forming a band! And then HE TOO says (unprompted, out of the blue--a spooky synchronicity!) "You never wish or will anything, do you? Your restraint is extraordinary. No one else I know..."

I'm still wary to use my will. I tried last month, first time in years--I demanded health and committed to whatever that took. What a backlash! Immediately got sicker than I have been in years.

How CAN I use will safely? Some things work--artistic determination is safe. So's asking questions in dreams--to pin down & confront & question dream figures. That I could do more! Need to question that arrogant writer who ordered me in a dream "Go to grad school or my goons will hafta beat you up."

I go over the last months' dreams to see what's brewing. Feel I'm missing the obvious...

In the evening, watch Fry & Laurie play Wooster and Jeeves... Whew. NOT healthy rolemodels!

THAT NIGHT

I'm drifting slowly futureward,
    over the Reefs of Time.
The coralheads aren't hard, but brush--
    flowering chaparral.

I swim above rich time-heads,
    fragrant monster brains,
trucksize indigo cauliflower mounds.
    Lower now I fin,

seek a landing strip. My goal's
    just a timenook with
trouble a shaman like me can fix.
    Hey! A time of myth

Full of creatures bred for long
    life and hands and brains.
A fairytech world of talking beasts,
    animadorable kin!

Not cute to all. New Nazis bred,
    loathing animal ways.
Citizenship? Outrageous! Not
    for these furry Jews.

The Führer kidnaps a puppy;
    weeks old, still dumb.
Neodogs grow fast, but still
    literacy takes time.

The Führer's fiendish plan is to test
    Pup to show that dogs
can't read! Yet newborn humans just
    gurgle, flap their legs.

Unfair! So I'm here to save the pup.
    Baby. Whatever you call
the tender sprout of a citizen with
    or without a tail.

But what I hit as I angle o'er
    a final lilac head
to nestle in the Age of Fur,
    is old rock stars instead!

Sketch of a dream: flying over coralheads that are also flowering mounds of ceanothus (lilac brush) AND future, past, and alternate worlds.
They hunker in blue ceanothus brush,
    Eighties shoulderpads;
a hulking barrier reef! Their
    mohawks filterfeed.

My airfield's Suzi Quatro--
    Oof! Her neck is tense.
So I ask "Would you like a massage?"
    And as I pluck, she sings!

Her throat and collarbone thrum sweet,
    but laterals are tight
and her back's piano wire. "Too much?"
    "No, stretch more! That's right!"

Garble snorkel decade mash!
    My time-swim's a joke.
But at least I found right work at last.
    Quatroing, I woke.

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