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| Wendelin Jacober |
IN DREAMS
I
Long and dusty
a road leading to somewhere else
this, a place unspoiled
by human waste
road leading both in and out
in that place of God’s embrace,
then loosely configured rooms
with no definitive order or placement
of furniture, cabinets, chairs and sofas
time passing
every piece moved from one day to the next
yet there was purpose
in the definition of the room,
a dream sat in a blue overstuffed chair,
just there, pouting,
while the dream wanted to be remembered
even so, memory being fallacious
akin to some sort of blood-brain barrier
inhibiting passage of the traces.
II
Different dogs, some blue, some yellow
smiling dogs, happy
on mountain trails at elevation
a wristwatch appears on a giant arm
index finger on opposite hand
tapping it, notifying times-a-wasting,
dogs on a leash, pulling
topping a rise
seeing the valley below
a tranquil white house beside the bluest alpine lake
under a cloudless sky
a sunset just starting to the east
noticing a porch-light coming on
we hurry down the downward switchbacks
towards a quiet interlude with yellows and reds.
remembered in the morn
frowning, this would never be, dreaming.
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| Ray Whitaker |
Ray has four books published and two chapbooks. His work has been published in eleven different countries. Ray was a Delegate to the 2024 Writers’ International Panorama Festival. He participates regularly in several Zoom poetic events worldwide. Among them, he has been spotlighted on a US National Poetry broadcast from Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio in 2024, and also an International Poetry Recital hosted by The Fertile Minds out of India. In July 2025, he was the featured poet in David Leo Sirois’
Spoken World Online, which is associated with Spoken Word Paris.
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