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Sky-Thaw

Dreamed 2012/6/8 by Wayan
for the Wisconsin workers Governor Walker fired

INTRODUCTION

Awake, I've never seen Lake Michigan. Or ice floes in a summer sky. Or a performance artist up on a ladder arguing with a chicken perched on a plush magenta glove like a luxury-addicted falcon. Asleep, though...

THE DREAM

Acropolian hill.
Atop street
artist beckons.
Atop pole
Baba Yaga
bird cage.
Chicken up,
chicken down.

Thespian opens
silver aviary
cradles serene
bird star
upon maroon
velvet claw:
Yorick plush
enthroned.

Man(iac) one-
handedly clambers
rickety ladders,
Victorian gutters.
Oration utters,
lost to wind.
Mummers ready
to begin.

Eye the sky!
Rooftop show.
Dizzy gawk
chicken zenith.
Under spine
hill shudders,
gale-thrummed:
Aeolian.

Forget duet:
horde overhead!
Hovering ice
floes churn,
Saturnian.
Blue sun
curvetongue
thrusts back

frazil white.
Torrid June,
Floridian,
popsicle-kisses
winter's last.
Icumen in!
Summer's ready
to begin.

sketch of a dream, 'Skythaw', by Chris Wayan: chunks of ice float in the sky above an actor and a chicken atop the roof of a Victorian on a hill by a lake.

NOTES IN THE MORNING Sketch of a dream, 'Skythaw', by Chris Wayan: an actor and a chicken atop the roof of a Victorian.

Tall skinny poem starring chickens? A dream tribute to William Carlos Williams's classic poem "Red Wheelbarrow", just as the illustration's my tribute to the folk artist Grandma Moses.
The rooftop performance? Sorry, I was so distracted by that icepack floating in the sky like a lost ring of Saturn, I forgot to watch the chicken.
Chicken enthroned echoes a scene in Daniel Pinkwater's Lizard Music. It's set by Lake Michigan, so I wondered if the dream was about the Wisconsin recall election.
The blue tongue of clear summer sky was shaped just like Lake Michigan! Confirmed my feeling the dream's about the recall vote.
The levitating ice: I saw a study showing Governor Walker's harsh cuts actually prolonged Wisconsin's economic freeze. Worse than no action at all!
Warm wind: the Heartland will shake off its long political and economic freeze, despite Walker's short-term victory. A slow thaw, but Sumer is icumen in.
ACTION: patience! My nature's impatient, abrupt & squawky as a chicken--I want it all now. But political and economic reform is a long game.

LISTS AND LINKS: ascent - dream birds - theatre & performance art - dream humor - surrealism - ice & snow - hot & cold - political and economic dreams - dream haiku & dream poetry in general - Wisconsin - calendrical dreams - patience - a winter is icumen in dream-poem: Black Solstice - different dreamer, similar vertical Williamsy Chicken Dream Poem

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