Poem by Suzanne Lummis

Dream Journal, 2013 - 2016:  Titles and Brief Synopsizes 


Mean Sea: All roads lead to the sea, even in Montana


Future Imperfect:  In which I land in next century with bad wardrobe
     and no car


House of Intrigue: I the au pair girl wonder what’s going on


Marilyn Monroe Coffee: a) Some like it hot. b) Drink then sleep, sleep… 


Time Zone: In which I tap Japanese man and he tells me the hour


Rogue Clown Picks Up Our Scent: In which we citizens attempt to escape
     from repressive Bouffon regime


Gunmen in the Amber Glass Building: They don’t throw stones


Recurring Nightmare #5, The Undergraduate: In which I’ve attended
     CSU Fresno for 30 years—because no one gets out of Fresno


Recurring Nightmare #3, Doomed to Wander the Earth: Where Did I Park My Car?! 


Raw Talent:  In which I invite grimy man howling on the corner
        to audition for my play, and he’s pretty good


Get Lost!  Shoo!: I banish monsters


The One That Got Away:
       Pertaining to the mysterious evaporation 
       of Mick Jagger when offered “The Fish” by E. Bishop


Both Voiced and Silent:  Keyboard missing its “h”
        
Dreamed  Script: 
Opening Shot 
EXT. Aerial view of landscape. Ragged ground
once flowed with lava, now—dry gullies, low,
jutting peaks, quiet like a topography map. 
V.O. (The dream speaks its name)
Even the Gods Can’t Make Ends Meet

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Suzanne Lummis is an influential poet and writer, educator and arts organizer, whose poems have appeared in The New Ohio Review, Plume, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Hotel Amerika, Antaeus, The American Journal of Poetry and The New Yorker, and in several international publications.  Her most recent book Open 24 Hours received the Blue Lynx Poetry Award.  As co-publisher of The Pacific Coast Poetry Series (Beyond Baroque Books), she edited the anthology Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, named one of the ten best books of the year by The Los Angeles Times.  She teaches for the UCLA Extension and was the Mellon Foundation Institute for the Study of Los Angeles visiting scholar at Occidental College, Spring 2017.

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