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A Wizard's Horse

Dreamed 2018/9/3 by Wayan

THAT DAY

We're renovating my housemate Lisa's bedroom. She's felt ill, allergic; fears we'll find mold or rotting wood when we peel up the carpet. I hope not. What a nightmare that'd be to fix!

THAT NIGHT


My land's magical. As am I:
a wizard's mare; human-wise, but
cannot speak your chattertongue--
monkey sounds won't come
from my elegant throat.

On a quest, my pet mage and I find
greenish corpse in mud. A murderspell!
I scent the smoldercurse is still
active--deadly. But my nosy friend
can't sniff that undersmell.

Mute, how do I warn Old Curious not
to touch voracious rot? In quandary
I half-wake to find I'm human, suddenly
plodding through old thigh-deep snows
half-adream toward my log abode.

Tramp the crust in dusk; snowplow,
as I run mare-dream scenarios--
how to regain true me, and lure
my wizard-pet away from that
nosy-monkey trap, sans hand
or spoken word. Pretend

I'm spooked? Or mime. Would he
believe mere nightmare me? Or
plain horse force! Drag him away
outraged in my impudental jaw? Ah,
better a snap-slap war than see
him tide-turn--slow surge--to rot.
Foul way to lose a friend!

I wake. Well, wake again.
It's summer now--no curse, no snow.
No nightmare me. But I still know
to save my friend our digging has to stop.
Mare said the toxin's
all up top.

I'm a wizard's horse trying to warn him of a curse on a dead body by the roadside. Dream sketch by Wayan. Click to enlarge.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

THAT DAY

We strip off the rug to find the subfloor beat-up but not wet or moldy. So old it might have asbestos--dangerous to disturb--so we seal it off with acrylic and insulated pads, install a floating vinyl floor. After, the room feels lighter, drier... and clean. Healthy.

MONTHS LATER

She did replace rug and mattress. And got better. Nightmare was right. Not the underfloor, but rug and futon bore the Toxic Curse. Trust the nose of your horse.



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