Dream #45

“That is a dangerous dream,”
the giant praying mantis told me
“It is a vile, vile thing for us to have
to walk this bloodstained earth--”
“--But we are doomed to it,” I finished
“It was bloodstained before us, and so it
will be so.”
“Yes, all of the blood has mingled together,
so we cannot tell which is which,”
said the praying mantis
“My love said to me that if the house
was full of water, would I swim deep
to rescue him.”
“of course you told him yes.” said the
praying mantis
She paused
“But it is dangerous to dream like that”
“Who said it was a dream?”


Tracy Meleca

©1998

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