A Faithful Retelling of an Afternoon Dream

William Haskins

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While walking a dirt familiar road,
ten pine trees from the edge I spied,
alit on a branch as high as my smile,
a fledgling and kitten, side by side.

I kissed the kitten's heart-shaped nose,
ruffled the fuzz on the young bird's head,
but before I could bring you back to see,
the kitten had flown, so the fledgling said.
 

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This one is deceptively fun. I mean, it is fun, but it actually does justice to dream logic , which isn't easy, and then in the last lines makes me do, wide awake, that same bemused smile when I try to explain what seemed perfectly reasonable while I was sleeping.
 

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haven't been here in a while. you know, life.
but, I was thrilled to come back to a poem by you on the front page. and it is good.
all the better.
thanks for being an unwitting welcome mat.