Messenger
Dreamed April 1978 by Denise Levertov
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Dream oracles or messengers, as in Animal Transfiguration, Buffalo Person, Eat the World, The Irrationality of Dreams or Joyous Ride are memorable (and probably meant to be); even absurd figures have power, as in The Circus Humans' Desertion or Kolchec. But what's really unnerving is to find yourself working as such a guide or messenger, as here, or in Kick the Faerie Bell, Newt Wedding, and The Ambassador Pro Tem of Dreams. Messenger isn't Levertov's only dream of being such a guide for others: see Uncertain Oneiromancy.
SOURCE: Life In the Forest, Denise Levertov, New Directions Press, 1978, p.132-33. Passage is untitled fourth section of "Metamorphic Journal, Part III: April". "Messenger" added to aid searches.
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