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Follow that Act!

by Kristina Woodhill

Into the precious haze
of bats' fantastic flight plans

where pillows stay put
like good soldiers at ease,

my day's kit thrown down
amongst rumpled socks

likewise finished with their
stretched yawnings,

I wandered

or thought
I had a foot step's choice.

Such a haze as this
directs its play from an oddly balanced chair

like a whim of then teetering,
nudging the now, a so brief tug-of-touch.

A movie or second act might appear,
knobs still experimenting with sound levels
of fading sobs

Then! (that pregnant word of well-born stories)
Sweet Friend,

from out the Cavern
of those never forgotten

you just popped

hopped on behind me,
my sizzling feet, dizzy,

now pedaling a small trike
on a street I did not know

straight to the where
of an unreeling script.

Teasing, I called you batty

we, teamed up on three wheels,
a tipsy pair of pals;

I breathed you in
from over my shoulders

claiming your wide smile
like a late night lottery winner

refusing to look back
at the host of
black,
crackling
cloud

caveward bound

11/26/2017

Author's Note: Questions I asked: Can I write about night in a more unique manner; can an actual dream have any impact in a poem if it involves a tricycle; why does the anniversary of the death of a friend bring forth such an odd circumstance?

Posted on 11/26/2017
Copyright © 2024 Kristina Woodhill

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 11/27/17 at 04:18 PM

Follow the act...and connect the dots. I love the way the mind works when in sleep mode and unfettered by rational awake thought. Nice capture Kris.

Posted by George Hoerner on 11/27/17 at 04:51 PM

The mind tries to tell us many things at night. I believe most of which we rarely understand. But on occasion we can dig something out of them as I think you have here. And in such wonderful manner!

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 11/27/17 at 09:46 PM

I think dreams and poems should be all inclusive and should welcome everyone and everything to the ball, tricycles included. As far as night is concerned, the topic has been broached quite often, still there is room for other interpretation such as is uniquely yours, Kristina.

Posted by Glenn Currier on 12/07/17 at 03:17 PM

"Such a haze as this / directs its play from an oddly balanced chair" These words capture in a unique way the experience of the "barely remembered" aspects of dreams. But to recapture the trike artifacts of a relationship reappearing in the dream is unique. Well done. It is so refreshing revisiting your work after my long journey away from this still wonderful website. It's good to be back.

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