“The structure of dreams makes for lousy poetry — the associational and tangential but linear structure of the form is so overdetermined.”
With Read Write Prompt #100 poet Bruce Covy challenged us to write a poem inspired or mined from our dreams. I was excited by this prompt because only a week or so earlier I had awakened from a dream with a phrase echoing in my head and I felt compelled to write it down. It became the first line in this poem. Each line thereafter has come from a phrase or image remembered from a subsequent nights’ dream. This is really a departure from my usual style of writing so I’m quite anxious to hear what y’all think. Poems from other RWP participants can be found here.

Japanese Plum Blossom from my back garden ~ 2008
Perceptions From REM
She was either schizo or
just plain manipulative
She lived her life
between the lines
With a juicy orange Japanese
plum in her mouth
She had a talking dog named
Bonzo
who only ever said
“I want my mamma”
Visions of dead kittens
and writhing insects made
her scream wordlessly at night
Interlopers criticized the
cleanliness of her kitchen
Still, the girl from Gentilly with
the pouty painted lips urged,
“come out!”


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