I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers and Camille confided that shed done penance for stories - stories that Ill never know if she wrote or only imagined writing. Shed wanted me to tell her a secret from my dreams a secret from my dreams I hadnt had as yet and so I didnt quite understand what she was after.Its about feeling Camille had insisted.I didnt understand then that she was talking about risk.
I am the woman at the waters edgeoffering you oranges for the peelingknife glistening in the sun.This is the scent and tasteof my skin citon and sweet.Touch me and your life will unfoldbefore you easily as this skirtbillows then sinkslapping against my legs my toesfiltering through the rivers silt.Following the current out to seaI am the kind of womanwho will come back to hauntyour dreams move through yourhumid nights the way honeyswirls through a cup of hot tea
Ive always seen this in you ever since you were a little girl this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and its what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.
I had a dream about you. At first you were a mannequin and I was a fashion designer. Then inexplicably we switched roles and I became the mannequin. But instead of putting clothes on me you laughed at my nakedness and you sold me to the owner of a sex shop.
How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons and of the female with females.
Yet the stupid believe they are awake busily and brightly assuming they understand things calling this man ruler that one herdsman how dense Confucius and you are both dreaming And when I say you are dreaming I am dreaming too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.
By embracing your subconscious you gain a different way of seeing and experiencingan expanded perception that opens a doorway not only to lucid dreams but also to the mythic dimension. As in lucid dreams you see yourself or others with new eyes your senses awaken and grasp an experience more fully than ever before suddenly you find your ears are open to hear with a deeper understanding.