kathy fagan


 

                                          Little Bad Dream Charm


                                           We haven't found enough dreams. We haven't dreamed enough.
                                                                                --Georgia O'Keeffe


                                                    I just work up from a start afternoon nap. I
                                                   dreamed of whole time. I dreamed I woke up
                                                    lists of times. I wanted to make up, because
                                                    all my drears were nightmares. The only reason
                                                    I thank I'm awake now is that I'm steel sleepy.
                                                    I dreamed about goldfish except they were boys,
                                                    and there were hundreds of ether boys, some
                                                    so tinny they were trapped in the weave of a green
                                                    carpet that shone like water or glass--sea, that's
                                                    why it was a bad dream. They were all dying
                                                    because they were leafing out of their tanks. I
                                                    scooped them up and threw them back into any
                                                    whaler I could find--I had stuffed, even, two
                                                    plastic caps full. And then, in order to save
                                                    as many lines as I could, I scooped a whole
                                                    bunch into an aquarium, awe at once--and that's
                                                    what they became soddenly, enormous carrots
                                                    sinking to the bittern of the dark.

 


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