Bobby's Dream

    BOBBY'S DREAM

     Elms and maples, firs and cedars,                  

mystical turtles, trout and doves,

     crows and seagulls, mad crows

     and monster ravens, black bears,       

cougars, coons, and deer.

     She sees them all.

     And in the evening, when she is old,

     she carves orca earrings, otolith         

ornaments, and a dozen other little animal    

things. She looks at you and says,

     "Dreamers dream, shine beeswax;     

precious small stuff.   

     This is where I will go when Green   

mountain turns white and green again . . .     

I will be there."

            She dreams and cougar dreams back,

     watching from above.

     She dreams and trout dreams back,

     watching from below.

     She has watched the eye of the blackbird

     blink,

     when it is the only moving thing on

the side of white Green mountain.

Published by the Poetry Institute of Canada in the anthology, “ The Winds of Change,” ISBN: 978-1-989549-04-9