Dream


Searching for restaurant to show Liam. We climb hill. Settle on pizzeria. Walk across dark room and Liam lets out shout. A rat is running in zigzags past our feet. We stamp. Liam's hand is amputated at wrist.

later at party, a camaraderie, between Liam and man, who grafts a hand to it. Perfect by morning,

stand up club, with S'ki and Eva. Mislaid Eva's ticket. No quarter from staff, many gathered around big dining table. Upstairs, queue. Eva walks off, S'ki enters auditorium. 'I'm unhappy,' I tell staff. Am given small padlock and a bag, like my laptop bag. This gives admittance. I run downstairs, call Eva, but get her answerphone. She is at pub, it says. I run upstairs. The show has begun. Will I enter?

Dream 4 4 10


pursued, many levels
to begin top floor. I hear the emptiness of corridors,
the library, anticipate the fighting
betimes, stand and run towards the door / outside.
Crops, sun, I must run and hide in this Holland / level
cross field to mansion, where I pass behind bushel
or may retrace to the corridor

Descend a level, empty, go to the table of newspapers
fatherly my quarry, I duck, make my way round
am seizing a cassette with the cover of American Psycho
to set out, the dog with me, across the sunny fields,
feel this time, an army behind me in pursuit.
I run widthways, would sidestep an army.

or am in library as long as possible
narrow corridors bulb light yellow desks.