My friend stuffs a broken feeder with birdseed. I worry it'll attract too many wild birds. He laughs "Exactly!"...
I just watch as all the dance students practice the jive step. I think I already know that one...
I have no roots but those I steal--until my father leads me to a sacred tree, saying "Look to your mother"...
Distilling a dream to one key image can clarify it. But don't be ruled totally by traditional haiku form...
Daily dream-poems in haiku style, nonstop for a month. A flood of animals, revenant ghosts, sex changes...
One dream-poem in haiku style each day for a month!
Ghosts, snow, penguins, yoga babies, elves who leave their tree...
A month of dreams full of science fiction: galactic navigation, spacedragons, oppressed fairies, alien love...
Dream poems laid out like a calendar. Themes? Horses, camels, abused girls, vampires--all want their freedom...
Dream haiku laid out like a calendar. Roswila's favorite is the pirate, but mine is the were-salamander...
Tarot cards fuse and meanings layer, to warn me I've similarly (con)fused>
real and trance-induced memories during therapy...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
A watershed dream for me, since my relationship with my father was, shall I say, conflicted...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
My horse and I dove into a lagoon and sought buried treasure on the sea-floor. What are we really after?
Nightwalkers lured our empath away. We come to their castle to rescue her.
But she's pregnant with magic. Will she come or stay?
A dream haiku of little devils dancing the conga. What's it mean? Well, check the date...
A mare's brought in to save a rare bloodline. She's young but as extraordinary as her mate: part filly, part feline...
My dreams support a radical break from my past--to let go of possessions and friends in a cross-country move...
A dream haiku telling of a dog-pack saved by the intuition of a mutt with a mangled ear...
In her kitchen she offers me shortcake. She's short herself, for she gives away all
to everyone--only her bodiless head is left...
The first two dragons numb my pain. I demand it back, and soon regret my haste.
But the third dragon I seduce, for I'm a dragon now...
A kinky seduction slips into something more uncomfortable: the Qabbalah? Or possibly leather...
CAUTION: EROTICA OR ESOTERICA?
You'd think his Christmas wish would be "a new eye"; well it was, in a way...
I meet a female Bigfoot, who, to my surprise, quietly speaks my tongue.
She's mourning the death of her infant son...
Haiku by Roswila of a dream of meeting a winged horse, illustrated by her late friend Janet...
by Daughn Lee and Roswila; 1999 (2000?), a collaborative dream-poem
Alternating stanzas by very different poets, based on
Roswila's dream of bellydancing in the streets...
While watching two rooftop actors (one a chicken) I noticed the icebergs in the sky were melting at last...
A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream...
I defeat the knife-wielder, in spite the blade in my belly I can't pull out. I may have to let it be...
Skimming over the lake on surface tension as two sharks prowl beneath, I'm not sure who's fishing for whom...
My father's trapped in a crashed car. But I'm distracted by a young man whose palm cups a living flame...