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The Nightmare

Dreamed 1992? by Cathy Anderson

Come to me relentless night,
eyes are closed against the light,
Into the torment of my dreams.
Haunted by creatures taking flight,
through shadows of my hindered sight.
Luring me to endless sleep
to cut my conscious worldly ties.
Pull me down entice me deep
Into the torment of my dreams.

Wake softly to the morning light,
this glorious day awaits my eyes.
A gift of time before tonight.
Haunted by creatures taking flight.

EDITOR'S NOTE

What I want to know is, why are her dreams a torment? Is it so awful that her dream-creatures take flight? I mean, when I take flight, I like it. And who are they? Swans, hippos, tyrannosaurs?

This is why I think Delany's Law applies to dream writers & artists: the weirder the material, the plainer the style. Poets need to get a bit mundane when telling dreams--spell things out for readers. When you allude to the waking world, we have common reference points, but our dream worlds may be very different (and most of us assume our dreamworld is THE dreamworld. Freud and Jung claimed they split over theoretical points, but Freud had Freudian dreams on sex, power & status, while Jung had Jungian dreams full of animas, archetypes and magic. They talked of "dreams" as if they're unitary--and they're not.)

SOURCE: Trinity County Poets' Chapbook ed. Vivian Garrigues, Quail Creek Press, 1992; p.4. Bio notes that Anderson graduated from Trinity High School and was at publication a math teacher at Shasta Community College.


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