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Small Miracles

two dreamlets, dreamed 2008/9/7 by Wayan.
1: Tiny Scientists
A naked lab scientist
fresh from the future
materializes in my house,
slender, blonde, barely five feet tall.
One of my housemates, Alder,
knows this stray Eloi. She warns
"two more will likely soon appear."
They do; diminutive blondes too,
as alike as triplets. Do
nude nerd Barbies rule our future?
All three seem relaxed, easy
in their skins as cats. So sexy.
But the heatwave's broken,
the Frisco fog is back;
Our taboos they may ignore,
but they'll need clothing here in our
interglacial past.
So I rummage through my closet
pulling out long coats,
sweaters and shirts to serve as dresses
on their adorable Munchkin bones.
And then amid my frenzied helpfulnesses,
I wake muttering "Whaaaat?"
2: Barberry
I live in a wooden labyrinth, many stories tall.
Wake at dawn, and wander alone
(everyone here's a late sleeper but me).
The house is dark and chill.
Finally, in the kitchen, I find a square of sun.
I sit in it, squarely, folding my long legs un-
der, sun on my back, read a poetrybook
as my bare feet warm.
By me, on the floor, sits a dark blue plum.
No, a giant barberry! Almond- or sloe-shaped,
vivid blue. Also called Oregongrape--
but even up there, they never grow
three full inches long.
Anomalies don't shock me. Almost routine,
in our labyrinth-home. Small miracles
leap to us like agile squirrels
from far time-branches. But no spare
witnesses this dawn.
On impulse, I let this one get away.
Rather than cart
my alien fruit around town,
shocking botanists (easy prey!)
I eat the miracle.
Bittersweet, tart.
I'll plant the stone.

DREAM NOTES

1: Tiny Scientists

time-travel, Alder: today Alder read my transcription of her dream Amplifier, on the World Dream Bank. She said "I don't remember it like that!" I felt guilty--baaad editor! So I checked my original notes of what she told me nine years ago, and there it all was. You're the authority on your dream when you dream it, but unaided memory's unreliable over years. Write 'em down!
tiny naked blondes: from Meg Cabot's Avalon High, a resetting of Arthurian legend in a high school. The narrator catches Jen (Guinevere), a little blonde cheerleader, naked in bed with Lance. (The book spoke to me, since I'm still healing from a love triangle that exploded due to jealousy.)
three, scientists unsure. Met no triplets today; none in Avalon High. Maybe literal? She'll work in a lab and have two sisters, who knows?
from the future: maybe just a hint she's from MY future, someone I haven't met yet. Or...
Eloi: in The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, the Eloi are the childlike descendants of the leisure class. Though there's a wonderful scathing revisionist science fiction fable in which Weena, the supposedly simple-minded Eloi who the Time Traveler tries to save, travels back to Victorian England, finds it savage, sexist and primitive, and sets about building an Eloitopia...
Comfortable nude: I knew immediately this meant the future will be hot. Maybe sexually; certainly climatically.
Munchkins: dwarf natives of eastern Oz in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. I'm lying--the three weren't that tiny.
In our pre-warming climate you need clothes: Hot today. I went to Golden Gate Park in paper-thin pants and shirt. In came the fog! I biked home shivering. Clothes in my closet, none on my back! I grew up here; I know better! In San Francisco, ALWAYS take a sweater.
2: Barberry
Tall wooden house: Avalon High again. The kid who was probably King Arthur lives in such a house. A lonely place for him: stiff father, mom with secrets, hateful half-brother--a Mordred.
Barberry/Oregongrape: a West Coast shrub with oval blue berries half an inch long. I saw a showy relative of it in the Japanese Tea Garden today. But no giant berries.
Both
So what's it all mean? Well, last night I dreamed I should email a stranger. I haven't done it yet; I think both these dreams of materializations are saying "Hey, we come up with miracles, so don't just write 'em down, ACT on our tips!"
This is Dreamverse #23. Every day, a dream-poem! Or two.

LISTS AND LINKS: time-travel - a 2nd recent dream of the same smallish blonde: Shy No More - dream doubles - babes and hunks - labs and scientists - nudity in dreams - climate change - miracles - fruits and vegs - food - H.G. Wells - dream poems - Dreamverses project - the next Dreamverse: Invoke the Animal Powers (or was that Provoke?) -

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