Dream (I felt the colors repugnant
and fell backwards through the well
and was cascaded
like wine from a decanter
into a glass I could not see

it was a green & dream
but not like christmas, no, indeed
the world was suddenly a field
I played soccer on once
in Ipswich, by a small
1- lane highway and a 7-11

but the highway was not there
(and neither was the store
I recall)
and everywhere around the field
was corn, where we lost the ball.
A friend kicked it far, high,
soaring over the goal, and I,
the goalkeeper, went to get it.
between the stalks I saw
a light,
but could not for anything
find the ball.
The corn bent high and low in the wind
and I was in Ohio)

(Once in a dream I cannot place,
I was on a road in Ohio
a road I'm sure I could find
if needed on an older map.
I was bicycle, on it, that is suddenly
a yellow bike with thin black lettering
reading 'wasp' in a momentary
moonbeam.

I rode north, a crossroads unfolded
there was a green sign:
cleveland 20 pennslyvania 5
you are here and a map
that had blurred in the rain.

I took a dirt road, that appeared
between the choices i was afforded
and walked northeast, the wasp
was gone.

It was a long and twisting road,
beech trees aged and yawning wide
threw up arms that sagged with concern
for some event long since past.

Ahead, an old house, blue, though the
paint was chipping from grey wood
and left the house naked with pock marks
like a sick grandfather,
smiling through the pain.

i stopped, there were two men,
digging up, two graves, four feet into
the mild earth they looked up and glared
Ankou!
I had a bike again,
between my legs with heavy
feet that would not move,
behind the men were scampering out
brandishing cold metal and screaming
Ankou!
the legs sprung suddenly to life
I cast off and rode back like
the wind through the screaming beeches
with boughs a fury.

the scene became a street in a
town I used to live in
the street unmarked but I knew it
was named River ave.and catching
my breath, graveyard behind,
I saw a girl I had been in
love with in middle school once
and she smiled and said)