in last
nights dream
I was out
in the sticks
with my dad
and he told me
to watch
the river
for a while
so I did and
a humpback
whale breached
the surface
and of course
it represented
my dad but
I didn't know
if my dad
was the whale
or the river
that contained
it or why
when something
amazing happens
in a dream
I still end up
fumbling
for my phone
an idea
is not as
opaque
as first taken
look closer
you can see
the ripples
of its blood
stream the
tension in
its sinews
the click
of its joints
the yawn
of its bones
this one
is barely
the size of
a pinkie nail
take it
press it into
your brain
feed it
watch it grow
you were
like this once
not the infant
or the grub
or the grunts
that preceded it
you were
a flittering
possibility
a proposition
ravenous
for flesh