I dreamed I was on the shores of Brittany reading Le Monde. It had an interview with Jean-Paul Sartre, who was apparently still alive. And annoyed with us all. "All these centaur sightings are a flight from WHAT IS. They show BAD FAITH toward reality! Today, Man (sic) will turn anywhere to soften the hard fact of his (sic) own responsibility--he'll imagine all sorts of gods..."

Then I looked up, as this woman waded slowly out of the sea. She was slightly translucent, wave-colored... like jade. Halfway, I thought "Aphrodite!"

But she kept coming out--and disproved Sartre.

For she's a centaur. A centaur who's getting as tired as I am of being harpooned by self-appointed realists, telling us what's possible. What's realism's gift to history, anyway? The bloodiest century in sixty million years! Emily Dickinson was right:

Those--dying then,
Knew where they went--
They went to God's Right Hand--
That Hand is amputated now
And God cannot be found--

The Abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small--
Better an ignis fatuus*
Than no illume at all--

Days later, I realized I'd seen the start of this journey years before, when I was sick, lonely, poor, in despair. I wondered if I'd EVER be socially, sexually, or spiritually open--able to love. Well, my dreams answered. I dreamed of a delicate-looking cat-girl who set out for France, across the Atlantic, on an 8-foot sailboard--and I knew she'd make it. I'd make it. My shy, solitary self was not so fragile after all.

No, the main picture is NOT modeled on Michael Jackson after a fresh round of plastic surgery. I did refer to several photos for water and drapery effects, but none were of MJ, okay? Besides, back when I dreamed this, not even Michael Jackson looked like Michael Jackson.

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