Dream



Diminutive in blue blazer he must rise to each challenge I set - so crawls beneath table outside bar in street. He is smiling, immaculate, but there's shit on his blazer. He can't see. Will others tell him? Keep walking till deep water 50 metres across. Several people are climbing a staircase carved in the stone, having swum it.

My phone rings - calm voice, female. 'I'm just phoning to tell people:
we thought he'd made it, but he didn't make it.'

'Oh no,' I fall to my knees, moan, wake.