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DREAMING JUNIPER
BERRIES
Inspired by a dream
10/24/11
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Dialing, dialing |
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can't get through
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Frustration follows |
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Silence
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The word "Success" |
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encircles a luminous phone
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Drifting deeper |
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an artist renders a moving panorama
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Of classroom chairs |
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awaiting their occupants
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In color coded rows
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each row its own section,
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like countries on a map
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A prearranged spectrum of color
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draping an eternal landscape
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Architecturally, artistically designed
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to
teach rudiments of the Dream
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A second sequence
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a mist-enshrouded tree of wisdom
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This painter’s vision of Spring
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its quiet splendor opening to
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Willowy wisps and red juniper berries
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matching her own vernal dreamscape
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Of mystical, magical hoary-white branches
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berries all but faded
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The anonymous artist unfolds a perpetual tableau
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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
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He jibes with her junk poems
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Offended, her writing must be trash
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Associative alliteration, a
continuum |
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taught through the image of
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classroom chairs |
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changing
seasons
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junk
poetry
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Junk poetry, the details of a dream
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not debris, nor waste, but parts of an unbroken whole
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Awaiting an answer
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silence lifts; her call is returned
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She awakens to
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Juniper, a symbol of longevity |
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juniper berries that ripen in three years
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juniper berries, a shade of Lavender.
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Inconceivably infinite
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the space-time of color, the changing seasons.
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This is her Dream. |
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That is her story
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