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Hood
Dreamed twice--1993/5/11 and 5/15 by Wayan
When she flew home, she left her cloak. I try it on.
As disguise, or to take her role on? She cut
quite a figure in our town:
power, renown.
Odd pocket-sleeve at the throat: a hood for her foot-
long neck and slender head--not human at all.
Now I recall
that face--a swan-neck feathered saur, less beaky
(but quite as quick-strike snaky) as any Terran
heron.
The hood wards off an alien wizard
hazard,
one that friends all warned I'll need some shelter from.
But as I read the pamphlet (for sheltercloaks come
manualed) I learn these sorcerers hit aliens alone.
I needn't jam my fat Earth head into her hood;
I'm good.
Well, nearly. Cape's too small for me--can't pull off
her flowing glide. She was half a meter shorter
than bony me. Only if I kneel doth cape
grace-drape.
Oh, what if I just stand up human-tall--
just call
cloak a minidress! I long to acquire some gravitas,
but why copycat, in my hunger to change,
her unique, inherent
strange?
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NOTES IN THE MORNING
Dreamed twice. In the first I saw only the hooded cape and recalled the alien woman. In the second I saw her in the hood, then they fused; and this was the dream where I learned I didn't need to jam into that narrow hood or hunch to mimic her shortness.
So what WAS this bird-woman-coat-alien? A spiritual stance, a way of being, an "assemblage point" as Castaneda calls it? Or a external entity I encountered--a dream-spook so strange I struggled to see it clearly, interpreted it as person one second, laundry the next?
On waking I recalled the refrain of Yeats's poem Apparitions:
"Fifteen apparitions have I seen,
the worst a coat upon a coat-hanger."
It/she sure felt like that. A Material Girl indeed! Cloth, then spirit, then featherflesh, then...
So what's it mean, this Fashion Apparition? 25 years later, I'm still unsure. All I do get is...
I thought I needed some kind of exotic armor or disguise--and was firmly shown I didn't.
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