dreamstate writing 28 Feb 2018

[This dream occurred at roughly 7am, after I had crawled back into bed following completion of all twelve steps of my morning qigong meditation.]

We were driving down a steep hill in a grey vehicle. I was in the passenger seat greatly concerned that we would crash into the debris that dotted the grassy hill - beams and bars of steel, piles of sandstone blocks, and stacks of cut wood. At the top of a rise we stopped, where I voiced my concerns to the driver, who merely stared forward, his face an unreadable mien. Below the rise stood the first tee of a disc-golf course next to a dead tree, but my companion turned and walked back up the way we’d come. I followed him back upward onto a dirt path that lead along a ridge covered in snow, from which we surveyed the surrounding countryside of cultivated fields, scattered woods, and distant farm houses.

Walking back down to the tee, we came upon a half dozen other persons kitted out for disc golf. Somewhere nearby but out of sight a person was screaming with horrible urgency, which scared me enough that I ran for shelter. The formerly dead tree had grown tremendously, great reaching tendrils of a hardened, textured, grey plastic that dug back into the ground, forming a wall. Finding my exit blocked, I turned to find the others standing close by, a massive newcomer in their midst. (He reminded me of a figure from my childhood, a giant scotsman dressed in battle fatigues.) The newcomer apologized for the screaming in a way that took my fear away, at which point the dream changed radically.

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ]

haiku 26 Feb 2018

Once-hard ground now thaws
Spring is grasping, slick beauty
Life returns with speed

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ]

haiku 23 Feb 2018

Sign here - it’s all right
Give us your information
For a slight discount

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ]

haiku 21 Feb 2018

Where’s the graffiti -
The posters and stickers in
Free, street-galleries?

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ]

haiku 19 Feb 2018

Organized by Fate
Directed but by Chaos
Mankind’s course contorts

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ]

haiku 16 Feb 2018

Despite its bright sheen
Wanton consumption is dull
A hollow gesture

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ] ​

haiku 14 Feb 2018

With strong roots grasping
A grove of the grass bamboo
Can break through concrete

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ]

haiku 12 Feb 2018

Soft and beautiful
Bringing life to parched, dry lands
Rain is the gods’ tears

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ]

haiku 9 Feb 2018

Kalt, der Winterwind
Der über den Hudson zieht
Wie ein böser Hengst

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ] ​

haiku 7 Feb 2018

Oh please grant me strength
Goddess of boundless mercy
To complete these tasks

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ]

haiku 5 Feb 2018

Its exploding guts
Contain strength to transport man
And all his produce

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ]

haiku 2 Feb 2018

Firm yet yielding too
The wellspring of man, and joy
Oh to plumb its depths

[ americanifesto / 場黑麥 / jpr / urbanartopia / whorphan ]