Dreamverses are listed bloggily: newest at the top.

Why Dreamverses? I've been reading famous poets, and they're uninspiring me. Their dreams seem few and dull. Butchered, too--treated as raw material. So in Dreamverses I'll treat the dreams as just that--universes--real tales I tell. If that constrains poetic license too much... oh, well.

So far I've found the pace brutal--I rewrite a lot, and want more time to polish. Agh! But I've been amazed how enthusiastically my dreams co-operated with the project: a flash-flood of short vivid wild dreams just begging to be written up as poems.

Would I recommend dreamversing to other dreamworkers? Yes, but gear it to your available time, energy and recall. I couldn't sustain my pace. Got sick in mid-September, slowed and halted. As of late October, I'm going to resume, but not every day--maybe one a week, depending on my health.

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	MY POETIC LICENSE: by Wayan; 2008/10/5, a self-referencing dream poem; Dreamverse #33 Renewing one's life has its costs. What if you can't pay the price? A dreamlet of warning and shame...
	OH, WAIT: by Wayan; 2008/10/3, a dream poem; Dreamverse #32 I'm a spy tracking down coinlike bombs. Fighting a double agent, I fall in love! So I suggest her gang rob golden-parachute bankers...
	HAMM: by Wayan; 2008/9/26, a dream poem; Dreamverse #31 A lecturer tries to help the homeless founder of Hamm's Beer, robbed by bankers. But the talk may harm more than help...
	INDUSTRY'S SHORE: by Wayan; 2008/9/24, a dream poem; Dreamverse #30 In the hills above a polluted shore, I find hidden valleys with huge rare trees, and realize it's my choice...
	KING KONG CRAB: by Wayan; 2008/9/20, a dream poem; Dreamverse #29 One wizardry-classmate summons strange beings; another's learned how not to. Some things should be avoided at rush hour...
	ETNA-SHASTA, or, GROOM YOUR OWN FEATHERS: by Wayan; 2008/9/18, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #28 On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
	THE MOOMIN COMMISSIONERS OF TIME: by Wayan; 2008/9/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #27 A new Eve asks the Time Commission to send her back to Ethiopia 45,000 years ago. But they're shy Moomintrolls, not humans...
	BIRDS ON FIRE: by Wayan; 2008/9/15, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #26 George Bush leads a hill-tribe raid against the hill-tribe led by Osama bin Laden... and I'm stuck between... CAUTION: ANTI-HEROES, POLITICAL PREDICTION
	AIRACUDA: by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #25 The jeweled fish over San Francisco grew and grew until it landed and they spoke the secret code to me...
	INVOKE THE ANIMAL POWERS (or was it PROVOKE?): by Wayan; 2008/9/9, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #24 A children's performance of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. Why do I think it's all about politics? CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY
	SMALL MIRACLES: by Wayan; 2008/9/7, two dream-poems, Dreamverse #23 Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists and then an impossible fruit...
	BLUEBEARD DRAG: by Wayan; 2008/9/5, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #22 On the waterfront, I meet a seductive girl. Well, guy. Well, serial killer. Um, I think I'll leave now... CAUTION: HOMOPHOBIA OR SURVIVAL INSTINCT?
	INCEST IMPROV: by Wayan; 2005/6/13, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #21 Improv-dancing with my sister, I get turned on. But then a repressed Asian girl joins our dance, and... CAUTION: INCEST MENTIONED. OOPS, TOO LATE.
	SORB TRUCE: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #20 In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain...
	TIME-BUBBLE: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #19 In a city crawling across a marshy world, I find a detonating bomb frozen in a time-ball. Why do they bear this risk?
	ANCIENT AMERICAN GRAVEYARD: by Wayan; 2008/9/1, a dreampoem, Dreamverse #18 I'm a ghost watching future archeologists dig up a site of my people and get it so wrong...
	FETAL PAUSE: by Wayan; 2008/8/31, a nightmare-poem, Dreamverse #17 As I write a sad sex dream, a madman curls up fetally in the road outside my window. I put off calling 911 too long, and...
	CUTENESS PAGEANT: by Wayan; 2008/8/29, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #16. I'm trapped in a cutesy cartoon universe! Worse, to judge a beauty contest, I have to see past our style to our souls...
	SAW HER IN HALF?: by Wayan; 2008/8/28, a warning dream-poem, Dreamverse #15 A student of a sorceress I know describes a medical procedure her teacher plans that I wouldn't want done to ME... CAUTION: TALK OF BLOOD AND SEX
	LARRY'S MULTIVERSE: by Wayan; 2008/2/16, a dream poem, Dreamverse #14 My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall...
	KISS THE CATS: by Wayan; 2008/8/23, a dream poem, Dreamverse #13 I have to kiss a mess of cats. Fishy, but I'm not chicken. My real beef is with the humans watching...
	SLEEPERS ALL: by Wayan; 2008/8/22, a dream poem, Dreamverse #12. I'm going mad! I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters...
	SURF THE SAN ANDREAS: by Wayan; 2008/8/21, three short dreampoems, Dreamverse #11. Through twin gates of dream -- Dream-castles on the sea, lovely and lame -- A surfer of the San Andreas Fault
	NOT OUR HAWAI'I: by Wayan; 2008/8/20, a dream poem; Dreamverse #10. My sister and I swim and wade round a weirdly shrunken Pacific, until, near Fiji, we reach the Drain...
	JELLY REBELLION: by Wayan; 2008/8/19, a poem of a diagnostic dream, Dreamverse #9 I interview my own metabolism. Trouble in Cellville! I've got strikers and usurpers. But at least no invaders...
	DAD'S DATES: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream poem, Dreamverse #8. After my mom's death, my dad starts dating again. He treats his dates like dirt. What can I do?
	CROC BOY: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #7. My friend's mom is a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he's a crocodile, watch out!
	ANIMAL HEAVEN: by Wayan; 2008/8/16, a dream-poem; Dreamverse #6. I fall in love with a dancing rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner. How can I save her?
	12 SWALLOWS, 700 DAUGHTERS: by Wayan; 1972/10/14, a dream poem on compassion; Dreamverse #5 Alchemy demands I kill ten swallows. I refuse! Instead, twelve birds and I fuse and fly over a magic wood...
	THE DOCTOR KILLS A TERN: by Wayan; 1988/9/24. A dream poem, Dreamverse #4 Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite... CAUTION: WANTON MURDER
	SHY NO MORE: by Wayan; 2008/8/13. A dream poem, Dreamverse #3 I play the lovers in a teen romance: shy abused boy, insecure girl. But I get tired of the script, and... CAUTION: LANGUAGE
	FOX-MOTHER: by Wayan; 2008/8/12, a dream poem; Dreamverse #2. The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she’s worthy...
	LEMON PEOPLE: by Wayan; 2008/8/11, a dream poem; Dreamverse #1. A dream-fable of lemons who are really orange-people infected by a spore turns out to be about me...
	FIRST IMPRESSIONS: by Wayan; 2004/5/20, a dreampoem; Dreamverse #0.. I meet a monster--half earthworm, half giraffe. Then I realize she's kind of cute...

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