The Body Poem Project: Vivid Dreams

Vivid Dreams 

Horses with red reins of anxiety 

Walk through dense leaves together. 

The leopard looks down upon them and sobs, 

Green tears, without the will to leap.  

A bear rests between my legs, 

And tiger snarls at my feet. 

Everything sinks into a red-green anger, 

Horse hooves clop, the leopard’s tail twists. 

The heavy weight of the bear’s bottom, 

The arched and rounded back of the tiger, 

Sit in my belly which opens wide, 

Intestines twisting into the sky. 

The leopard’s raspy inhale startles the horses, 

Their hooves churn, crushing the red apple rot. 

The bear lifts its nose and sniffs, 

The tiger tenses with stoppered breath. 

Cancerous dolls sit beside patient puppies, 

On the red couch, all waiting for me. 

But I am in the green apple forest filled with full grown animals.