I dreamed I was barefoot in a public place.
What does it mean?
I dreamed I skated in shoes and I was pretty good!
What does THAT mean?
I dreamed my friend had a very valuable coffee cup and I helped him store it in
a locked display.
What for the love of Mike does THAT mean?
I dreamed I was back home where I grew up and I watched a pair of hawks
circling high on gliding wings and then I saw a sparrow frozen on a branch below
where it sidled under leaves and waited—what does it  all mean?
And why does all this and so much more
amuse, perplex and stump my
sleeping brain in one
night and in
a single
dream?

Maybe
it says a
great deal.
Perhaps it’s fraught
with meaning and importance.
Well, I don’t worry about that one bit.
But I did take stock and made note of a single thought—
a solitary takeaway from my startling, rambling nocturnal arabesque and
that is the thing that grabbed me most when I awoke—the sparrow!
In reverie, I perched on the limb beside the
hunted prey and I
perceived the still small bird and felt the rapid beating heart that somehow
some way was obeyed—
under total control, under maximum threat—
I learned then and there of
the manifest strength that dwells in the sparrow’s breast.[1]

Image: Fringilla Domestica, Common Sparrow Or House [Sparrow.][2]

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[1] © 2017 North Star to Heaven/Bentari Project
[2] Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Fringilla Domestica, Common Sparrow Or House [Sparrow.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1789 - 1913. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-03c3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99