Dream: Bluejay or Archeopteryx
kneeling on rock
by lakeside, sun
in the sky and also in
the water, that other
self of mine also
kneeling on rock
on the seared bushes the hard
berries squeezed out from
stem ends in spite of
the red needles crackling
on the ground, the sand, among
the roots, firedry
my four hands gathering
in either world, the berries
in the dish glowed blue
embers
a bird
lit on both branches
his beak split / his tin
scream forked in the air
warning. above me
against the sun I saw
his lizard eye
looked
down. gone
in the water
under my shadow
there was an outline, man
surfacing, his body sheathed
in feathers, his teeth
glinting like nails, fierce god
head crested with blue flame
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