Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher

What good is
a nights sleep
to an artist?

The whole point
to creation is
to capture the odd
connections and permutations
that the subconscious
sends us
in our dreams.
Most of which
are unfathomable.
Almost all of which
are unsaleable.
Maybe not all, but close enough to all
are embarrassing.

Ah, but the pulse
will soon reach
the end of the tube
and a fresh breeze
will soon be traveling
my way;
popping back up
to open the valve,
to part the Arundonian lips
of the reed
to reiterate
the whole process
once again.

Yes,
I know reiterate
once again
is redundant,
but,
in a greater sense,
aren't we all?

In a completely different
greater sense,
hough,
the redundancy is
purely literary.
Reiterations can happen
again and again and again.
Four hundred and forty times
a second
just to get the band
tuned up.

Doug Palmer