Dreams I never had.

1. A man kneels in the corner of the room. There are two piles of shoes next to him, both enormous. He takes a shoe from the larger pile and I see him doing something to it, though I can’t tell what. Something falls from the shoe. He picks it up and throws it, and then the shoe, into the smaller (though also huge) pile. He repeats this procedure, and as I approach I see that he is cutting the sole from each shoe.

2. We were on a bus. Another bus ride. The trip was supposed to be long, but the bus ride seemed to continue forever. Outside the terrain was bland and indistinct. As night approached we began to wonder when we would reach our destination. It seemed we should have arrived hours before. Everyone seemed to be dozing and for some reason we didn’t want to disturb the bus driver. The bus drove on and after night came you fell I began to grow tired. Where were we going?

3. The field seemed to go in every direction. The grass and weeds up to my knees, but growing sparsely. Bits of old junk here and there, also sparse: tin cans, old mud covered coins, a scrap of plastic, weathered yellow newsprint, perhaps remnants of utterly destroyed shacks. I felt I wanted to stay forever. Something was there. But after wandering aimlessly for a while I somehow found my way to the hill, went down, found the bridge and the tracks, and went home.

4. I was taking a tour of the great pipeline. The guide had taken me out of the city on foot. After hours of walking, the houses growing fewer and fewer, we arrived at the Great Pipe Park. He opened the black gates with a key and we followed a narrow paved path through thick woods. The sound of the air suddenly changed, the path turned, and there stood the entrance to the great pipe. It was amazingly dark as we entered and began the descent, but the guide produced a light and I was able to glimpse the corrugated surface of the pipe. “It’ll be a long time now,” from the Guide. We continued to walk.

5. I had found a blank pad of pages. I searched for a pen and finding that began to number each page. The numbers followed the usual sequence and only one per page. But each occupied a different position of the periphery of the page. And each written differently and some with designs around the number. On the first page I also wrote a title, “A book of numbered pages” You had been watching and suddenly asked, “Why are you doing that?”

6. Two reptilian creatures dashed at each other across the pavement of the parking lot. But as they were about to collide, a dog barked and both scurried together into the shadows of the open garage.