Damn this boom--from the City it's spread through the past-burbs to medieval gloom. Gold cranes like siege engines loom over castles gray as the barrowed dead. Times jostle, jar, surreal. Cranes are here not quite construction gear; lords have adapted steel mantises for Dark Age needs: to mount knights! For armor's now fist-thick--must deflect deadly new shot. Knights, tanked up, get craned into saddle; or, for the deft, to towercrowns, to rain fire-arrows down. I'm no knight, but this lord lets me loft. Squires bolt me in borrowed boilerplate meant for meat mountains. Strange. Canned Chris. Humming dragon-crane lifts me in jaw. But not to saddle, no mere two yards. Past wall, tower, flagpole, more! Scared, helpless--one crane-slip, and soar turns plummet. No; gaze beyond fear. Oh, the green miles! Horizon smiles, and sprawls--a purring past. And fore.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Timescape full of construction cranes: literal! I drove to Oakland for an art salon today. Cranes loomed all over SF, over Victorians, like those Martian tripods in The War of the Worlds. And it is war! Capitalism versus... oh, everyone else.
• Old & new: Fixit guys disrupted the art salon, testing the hosts' phonelines & modems. The neighborhood's obsolete wiring causes constant Net crashes. The past resisting the future disrupting the present!
• Encased in heavy armor, feel helpless: one artist at the salon is obese, moving at a tortoise-pace.
• Knightly view: sorry. The pun's just begging to be made. So that high vista is dreamwork.
• Fatal height, mild fear: a mutant gene gives me bouts of tachycardia; when it hits in REM, my heart pounds but nothing bad happens. Dreams of exercise, running, climbing--mild fear at most. I call them weakmares. This is an intense one.
• Scary view of a broad landscape of time past & future: literal too. I've had more predictive dreams this year. REM's intense and strange, but in that elevated state I do seem to see across time better than awake. And not just back. Ahead.

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