FLIGHT

The gleam of yellow moonlight hissed in her head

as she stumbled over the threshold. Finding it impossible 

to know him, she had become afraid of him and now she ran. 

way from the lurking ever-present sneer on his face. Anywhere 

away from his pornographic addiction to artful misunderstanding 

and deliberate misconstruing of everything she said. After ten years

in what felt like a life-time lived in the maw of manipulative dishonesty,

she knew that bruises from physical abuse fade and broken bones heal 

while psychological and emotional abuse beats you to death from the inside out.

Memories? Dreams? Reflections? The Ojibwa say they “go to school in their dreams”. Other people believe it’s possible that we are often engaged in dreaming other people’s dreams.
Perhaps we spin out the individual filaments of our lives in the freewheeling movement of our dreams, creating as we dance, the intricate infinite interconnecting fabric of the web of life itself. Perhaps, within the interstices of the tapestry we meet in electric exchanges before returning once again to the familiar stream of what our ego-mind thinks of as “consciousness”. Perhaps, in the diamond web of the universal dream-mind, we connect in fiery crossroad events of potentiality and meaning. And perhaps these sparks quicken new life in the wombs of our imaginations, creating life energy that is danced along the pathways of our journeying, held tight in the hot soft fist of our Becoming.

How They Do It

Entrepreneurs do it first.

Lawyers do it in their briefs.
Gardeners do it in the dirt.
Defense attorneys do it in an average of three motions.
Judges do it judiciously.
Jet pilots do it with a sonic boom.
Soccer players do it for kicks.
Catchers do it with their mitts.
Ballerinas do it in tutus and on their tippy toes.

Cactus growers sometimes do it with succulents.
Photographers do it in the dark and watch what develops.
Percussionists do it with rhythm.
Tennis players do it for love.
Drum majorettes do it in the street in front of a marching band.
Line judges do it out of bounds.
Particle physicists do with quarks.
Comedians do it for laughs.

Fundamentalists will do it for God but swear the Devil made them do it.
Missionaries do it with heathens.

Carpet layers do it on the floor.
Plumbers do it in the bathroom and under the kitchen sink.
Football players do it on Astroturf.
Sheepherders do it with dogs.
Equestrians do it with horses while wearing jodhpurs.
Electricians do it until they blow a fuse or something short circuits.
Ventriloquists do it with dummies.
Atheists yell "Oh God" when they do it, but they don't really believe.

Married Republican politicians do it, and do it, and do it outside of marriage.
Pro-lifers do it with harassment and threats.

Colorado gardeners do a lot of it with zucchini.
Flutists do it at an angle.
Contortionists do it at all angles.
Long distance runners do it in marathons.
Divers do it in wet suits.
Trout fishermen do it in hip waders with dry flies.
Loggers do it in the woods.
Penitents do it on their knees.

Ronald Reagan probably did it but didn't remember it.

Lion tamers do it with whips and chains.
Teenagers do it adolescently.
Professors do it absent-mindedly.
Judges sometimes do it in chambers.
DAs do it with plea bargains.
Taxi drivers do it in their cabs.
Churchgoers do it in pews.
Police officers don't do it unless they Mirandize first.

Miranda did it.

Teachers do it with lesson plans.
Psychiatrists do it with your head.
Dentists do it with your mouth.
Banjo players do it but they're really picky about it.
Horny little devils do it for the Hell of it.
Jane Fonda does it for the workout.
Composers for alto, soprano and baritone do it for the sax.
Santa does it with elves.

Astrologers can't do it without a chart.
Clairvoyants do it intuitively.
Channelers do it second hand.
Poets do it in couplets.
People who believe in reincarnation do it till they get it right.
Noah did it with two of every animal on a yacht in a rainstorm.
Magicians do it with sleight of hand.
Astronomers do it in the dark.

Creationists believe that God did it once for six days then took Eternity off.

Somnambulists do it in their sleep.
Hermits do it alone.
Margaret Thatcher did it three times.
Tiger Woods does it on the green with a caddie watching.
Steven King does it with horror.
Steven Spielberg does it with special effects.
Sarah Palin does it where she can see Russia.
The Pope does it infallibly.

Philanthropists give it away.