Monday, December 8, 2008

I wake up from a dream with a memory of hearing a voice saying these words: What is a human? It is a boisterous lamp that goes everywhere.

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I want to share my coffee with a woman who is sitting with me so I go to the counter and ask for a cup. The waitress reluctantly gives me one but I have to scrape out some vegetable scraps from the inside of the plastic glass. At that moment I see two bluebirds. They are fluttering their wings rapidly but staying in place in the air in front of me. Although something is partially blocking my view, I can see them and now I can feel their feet and the beating of their wings as they stand on my fingers. I want to show them to Toni.

I wake up and tell her the dream (in reality) and a couple of hours later we are sitting near a window at Ozzie’s, a coffee shop we like to go to in Park Slope. We are drinking tea and coffee and when I look up, I see a large yellow school bus parked in front of the window. To my amazement on the license plate are the words “Blue Bird.”

2 comments:

Annandale Dream Gazette said...

"a boisterous lamp that goes everywhere" --- wow, you dream in poetry.

Maybe (hopefully) it was the bluebird of happiness.

Nick Piombino said...

Thanks, Lynn. I was surprised to get these lines from a dream. It's happened before, but only rarely.

As for the bluebird, when I was discussing the dream with Toni, I remembered that my father-an army officer who mostly enjoyed listening to marching songs by John Phillip Sousa - had a record of Jan Peerce singing "The Bluebird of Happiness" that I loved as a child.