Two And Two: Selected and New Poems

Dream Interpretations

Dream Interpretations Each woman with wings is Lady Luck 13, and the three of you equal thirty-nine (your age). You were an angel then, and you’re an angel now. “Coarse” meaning “intercoarse,” a coarse, unpleasant penetration. This is all a fantasy, as the set-up scene is in a movie. In a dream, you basically star in your own movies. You want to embarrass yourself by telling this dream. You want to take confessional poetry to its ultimately foolish heights. You are a lesbian. You want a three-way. You are full of rage, and the TV has to pay. An aspect of your personality is expressed by each of the people in your dream—you are, in addition to the “I,” also the inattentive husband, the rapist, the brutal male animals, the female animals being hurt, and a woman longing for a safe way to express sexuality. You should take martial arts lessons as well as some sort of flying lessons (plane or windsurfing perhaps). You feel like your husband doesn’t notice you enough. Try a new perfume? 17 You are anxious about getting older and your body changing in a youth culture such as ours. (You romanticize the nineteenth century, thinking that perhaps it was better for older women then. Also your body type was more popular and desirable then.) You are afraid you will grow your own beard as your hormones begin to change. Three women. The trinity? Are you Christian? If you, the reader, have any other keys to unlocking this dream, please send them, in the form of a poem or prose poem, to the publisher of this volume. 18 ...