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When I saw the request for submission of poems from dreams, I was inspired. These are my two favorite formats. Poems and dreams can transform. This poem expresses diving deeply into love, into friendship, and into the unconscious. All the images were taken directly from a dream of mine. I hope the reader, if only fleetingly, can experience the joy and pleasure of the young woman in love, the warmth of the woman laughing with her close friends and children, and the anticipation and lightness of the mermaid diving into the unknown.
We are all in a hotel lobby.“You don’t know how serious we are.We are deep,” the glamorous woman told me,describing her relationship with her boyfriend.Then I see another woman, Mexican, laughing,slapping a child good-naturedly,talking with women friends,her arms moving like an octopus.Then I, naked from the waist up,