Steve Dalachinsky

DREAM BOOK

1.
smeared  in numbers
3 figures
                       6
                    7     4
combo                     diablo
divine   winner
taken                    under

elk denote marriage  embalmed
serious suicide
an unexpected event        brings good news
a happy but solitary life
white swan
disordered.


2. house
a.

it was
that i thought was never
there

river takes house                                             b.     but…….   
                                                                                              big house by sea
somewhere in the                                                       storm comes   erosion
midwest                                                                i scream  (she does very loud )
flat                                                                             but calms – relief -
                                                                                      it is not my house my life
06497 -  111 46                                                                   that will be washed away

a space off of a space
where i felt
safe

of covered wagons


 
3. creature dream sans creature
   

      crossssshatchedsleeperinterrupted
      by a lagoon of edges        &
      polarities
                         /  maplike indulgences
             of                            elements

       (     land   /     water     /     air  
               empty    >  mass   < flow

       treeshaped arrows & buddha-johns
             cross(-)circuiting     creating       typos        


4. creature dream minus the dreamer

      at 126th Carmeela enters the bodega
      asks what her name is
      2 men approach her w/a 40 in their hands
      speaking dots   -     she joins  them
@#$%&*#@$   como se llama ??????
      ?????como me llama  ????   
     
            the mass become empty
              the emptiness  mass
 both become    finger prints 
     ))))))))((((((((a language    all their own  
                                             a pretext for signing 
    sounding singing  speaking   writing   creating
                    typos    —  me/se llama   CARMEELA.



tilling the air  (eating  dream)

articulate complaints
de party  insults
re: leaf

tables alarm edibles
edible muted sleep   (others)
exhaust (fumes) open
multitudes din  smoking lobby
separate race flounders

desisn   <0> 1 (9) 2 other      repeating count –
habit   various shells squeezed young herbal gloss
hard-of-seeing sour scowl  while missed appetite

brook goes strangely adlib unfamiliar
yrarbil – frequent stranger debunked

away print
smharb unique textiles     text  styles  
tiled mosaic against grave  seriopus pen
appalling  thief transpires rickety 
br(other)
m(other)  -   appear  weak   week   collection
glared   hard furious 

uncover   =   take  off
recover    =   put    on

bathe   re frain be   tray  s(tale) late  e  mit
flush precise stub toward unnatural death
within the parent mill
vile nt          e labor   ate    emit time
immerse weight
scowl sour
scowl sour

curly cropped  miden
bathing born astonished
munching feline stew
g(r)aze greys   grZE  grays

confused   lost  scuttled
curly cropped denim
immersed weight mined   
wet
up hold story
upholstery  sheets choice     alc  dov tis
shower
elom        elom     articulate and mol(e)ded
peril   formed too late   u tu late

born astonished.
                              

             10/12-13/04  partial scramble lynne tillman reading at bklyn public library  decoded  at home



soaring thru tin


her bet by sel (b)  (f)

click 
click                          passed           imprint
           \                                           imprint
              (b)land                              
                                                       precisely
looks           in  e  radicable            precise
looks
                       click
                       click
perish 
parish  pew pyou pee-u    podium mike enclosing speaker    nibuo cigam

emit
emit
omit                    wager strip nickel down snarl

money
money
money                        honest
                                   honest                                      g(amble)    flush
                                                                                                      flush
       magic  wept               yavoni    yavoni     lace

honest    flush   pro snart 
honest    flush           marker  marker      hum drum  

music/art
settle
unsettling  pag            pro    test

wager strip sprayed

cling
cling
                      mur nosbig  clave  clave   insectuous grope
select   
select

ants
          
                         g.sorrentino reading at ny public library re-scramble  10/12-13/04



5. bird dream 


652

timbre of  doow
long shadows
bad weather
so afraid
the red speckled bird
downing
it is raining lightly
i am shooting a rabbit

feed that bites the hand
atroph inbelment w(one)
excuse be perferated 
prefer to eat the foot for luck
tin whilt good temper ate meant
in all things 

Steve Dalachinsky: The Trickster

Note: DREAM BOOK was written in n.y. in 2004 and published as a chapbook by avantacular press.
 
 
previous page     contents     next page