Halloween. Jungle. Olympic chill. Find a path; head west, uphill. It leads me all unwil- ling into Crone Cabin. You must crawl in that maw to face knob-knees. No doll, no actor--squatted this dirt floor all her century life. Leaf-shadows hide her moldy spouse. They here abide. Subsistence farm that did... subside "Until the Moss had reached their Lips and covered up their Names." I hiss "Chronos, chronos." And chase Exit. But the future-door's locked. Behind? Moss has gagged the past-chink. Gone. I'm trapped in the Shack of Time. Brief uneasy talk with the Crone. She wants me to clean her lair: "Begin by wiping the cobwebs off" those low oval windows--but one. She lives on that one dim web. She's spidering slow. Or was one, all along.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Olympic jungle: I just read, a decade after everyone else, Stephanie Meyers' Twilight, the quintessential vampire romance. Bella and Edward live in the Olympic Peninsula rainforest. If anything the books play down just how soggy it is. House-eating moss, mildew and mold.
• "Until the Moss...": paraphrases the end of Emily Dickinson's "I died for Beauty".
• Trapped in the cabin: can't escape age! Well, unless you die young (with or without vampire bite).
• Crone: Spider Grandmother, everyone's wise advisor. Gives me a health tip, but do I recognize her?! Too bamboozled by all those Euro myths of linear time. At this rate I'll soon dream vampires are adorable. Or that snakes are crooked apple salesmen.
• Clean up: I've been nagging myself to clean my room, can't seem to.
• ACTION: clean! And, uh... face you're aging and will eventually die? And, uh... don't kill spiders? And? Oh well! Start with cleaning. Your room... and your brain. Of stupid Euro assumptions.

NOTE A FEW MONTHS LATER

Now, in the middle of the coronavirus lockdown, looking back at a dream I had just as the first viruses were scuttling into California unnoticed... I suspect a pun. Crone, Chronos... Corona. The plague that makes you moulder away... at home... forrrrevvvvverrrrrrrr.

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