canoe bikini: dream journal

CANOE SHTETL


driving to court
topless as a pink
convertible

what to do?
she drives to a canoe store
buys a canoe

the canoe is a bikini top
for a softball team
bases are loaded then court begins

you wear a canoe
counselor
I must ask for your paddle

then a geography teacher from grade 11:
you never submitted a vital assignment
now I strip you of high school

the sky a ladder without rings
interstellar clowns
breathe deet down the rudder dark

shtetl drums ruminate low
obsidian breeding
where a javelin bleeds

or rivers


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adapted from a recurring dream of my wife's