(April) My ex-girlfriend and I were on the plane on the way to a city, flying past the frozen clouds slowly enough in fact so that I could examine their very motionlessness, which included, I slowly discerned, a colossal stretched-out male figure, the same color as the clouds, his arm wearily held out, fully extended, the hand taking a fistful of cloud and squeezing it in a futile gesture as we passed, she not noticing, and it then occurred to me: angels must exist for the creature was alive with a melancholy sigh, and I even heard the sound of the cloud as it was crushed in his giant hand like powdery snow -- but now the plane picked up speed and left the figure behind, accelerating and speeding between narrow rows of skyscrapers heading straight toward a line of others directly ahead. The plane can't make this turn, I thought, recognizing it as a dream and turning to tell my present girlfriend about the realness of it as I realized she too was fictional, and as I turned toward the final, physical version from across the imaginary loft we were trying to rent to strangers, I knew this was yet another layer between sleep and April. Next |
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