The Mesopotamian Armory
Dreamed 2008/8/6 by Wayan
THAT DAY
I'm reading Poet's Choice by Robert Hirsch--capsule descriptions of a couple of hundred poets he likes. Note some dream-poets who might fit in the World Dream Bank. Also read Dorothea Tanning's A Table of Content--a surrealist with two dream-poems. Then I try John Berryman: His Toy, His Dream, His Rest... Interesting wording, rhythms, they seem playful, but I have no idea what they're about. Except that under the surface humor lurks a sadness.
All this experimental writing makes me want to play too. Maybe a shape-poem?
THAT NIGHT...
Moral
Mortal, always clean your Room
Of inflammatory, allergenic Dust!
Only a Diligent
Job of Vacuum
Forestalls Divine
Incendiary Doom.
NOTES IN THE MORNING
Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built In Hell proves my dream right about both cause and scale of the biggest preatomic explosion humans ever caused: a munitions accident really did destroy a whole city! In 1917, a freighter with 3,000 tons of explosives caught fire in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The ensuing blast was fully a third the power of Hiroshima, destroying downtown, killing people a kilometer away.
Better not to worship gods of war.
EIGHT YEARS LATER STILL
Now the dream looks prescient--not looking back to Halifax, but forward--to Beirut. In 2020, a warehouse on the waterfront with nearly 3,000 tons of fertilizer exploded. The blast destroyed downtown and killed hundreds. But my dream resembles Beirut more than Halifax--a Mideastern city leveled by fertilizer, not nukes or petrochemicals.
Had the Beirut disaster happened in 2008 and my dream in 2020, the reference would be undeniable. But when the chronology's reversed...
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