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Fox-Mother

Dreamed 2008/8/12 by Wayan
The Cult of Clutter's highest priest
in sloppy sanctum finds one day
a waif who's palming small antiques--
clever little jay!
She looks like Emily the Strange:
black cat eyes and raven hair.
Did his Goddess lure her here?
"Child, you may explore."
So Em cracks a picturebook--
but trips a secret switch!
The looming purple idol's wood
starts to twitch...
FOX MOTHER blinks darkhuge eyes,
bends her slow wood head, to lift
squirming girl by shins and ankles.
Pinned in paw, Em dangles.
Fox Mother yawns longwedge jaws,
nibbles on Em's dusty feet!
Hungry? No, just tastes her sole.
Is burglar-spirit sweet?
Fox Mother cradles feralchild
to her nipple--hidden under
scrimshaw fur--a fox-milk offer.
Goddess chooses foster-daughter!
Fox Mother, adopt me too.
Silently I pray and pray
To muddle, feral scrounger, through
until my Tasting Day.

NOTES

Three children's books provoked the dream:
1. The scene and colors: Purple Emperor by Herbie Brennan
2. The girl: looked like Emily the Strange minus the sneakers.
3. Searching through curios: in L. Frank Baum's Ozma of Oz, the Nome King turns Dorothy's friends to curios. She searches his collection, seeking her friends (three bad guesses, and he'll turn HER into kitsch!)
Opening a book wakes a goddess who adopts her: echoes how high Tibetan lamas are chosen--a child must pick out items the previous lama knew.
Tasting her sole: if I'd been raised in a faith cursed with heaven and hell, I'd see a parody of St Peter at the Pearly (if sharp and drooly) Gate, AND a double pun on testing one's soul. Thank Dog I missed all that!
This is Dreamverse #2. I'm trying to write one dream-poem daily. So far, my dreams are enthusastically cooperating: I wake with a short vivid suitable dream each morn. They don't all contain puns, but my dreams do seem fond of that soul/sole thing. So...

I'll paw and poke
till I provoke
my own Tasting Day.

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