Ojibway Dream Net
Dreamed c.1984 by Regina de Cormier-Shekerjian
On receiving a dream net, a hoop
of ash, spider-webbed with sinew The air is filled with dreams: through
As I was directed, I hung it over my bed
of this net--one-legged, but many-tongued
of gold. His left leg of wood,
When he offered to cover his nakedness
long ribbons of words curled out of his mouth,
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what is written in the Book of the Old Ones,
in the secret heart of the fire, on his leg of silver. Glyphs of silver spun like coins in a magician's hands. When the sun leapt out of the woods,
This afternoon, having nothing better
was his leg of silver. I was told
and the leg has not yet been attributed to any
I found it. In its webbed sinews a blue feather,
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Editor's Note
Me, I find the world confusing enough as is. I keep my art obvious, even if (especially if?) I write about the strange--as I often do. I'd be heavy-handed about that museum with the silver leg, the dreamcatcher and blue feather under her bed--made it clear if the waking events are fiction or reporting.
But even though elusive's not my thing, I can tell when someone into it does it well.
--Chris Wayan--
SOURCE: Dreamworks: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly (v.4, no.1, 1984-5, p.14-15)
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