Dream Path
“I see again the generosity of dream geography, giving me places from many periods of my life at once …” The final (for now) installment of the collaboration between poet Judith Serin and artist Masami Inoue. The series will resume in January. I keep thinking of a path I dreamt years ago, wondering why...
Summer 2016: “Maps & Legends”
OVERTURE: Every map represents both truth and imagination. No matter how carefully a medieval ship’s captain described a shoreline or how sophisticated a modern engineer’s tools, there is always space left for interpretation: “Here there be dragons”; “Somewhere beyond this line lies the kingdom of Prester John.” These are the mapmakers’ truths, but no one...
Dream Architecture: Big Houses
Prose poem by Judith Serin, art by Masami Inoue. I often dream of houses so big I must explore them. I discover boxes of old treasures, toys in a small room downstairs, a high balcony near the ceiling circled with statues and trunks of shiny dresses. Often they incorporate parts of my childhood house...
Share This Poem: “Pretty Moon” By Lisa Dordal
Pretty moon, everyone said. Before the noise, before the fire. Two cars and the cornfields idle… From time to time, we re-present work that has been first been published elsewhere. This heartrending poem about nature’s imperviousness to human sorrow is worth more than one reading, and we are pleased to feature it as a Web extra…....
Dream Architecture: New Views
Part 3 of the Dream Geographies collaboration between poet Judith Serin and artist Masami Inoue. My husband–an unfamiliar dream husband—has bought us a large white stucco house. At first I think it’s dull. But outside along a wall of round dark stones I discover a path to a beach. There’s hardly any sand—perhaps the tide is high—and people...
