Lucid Dreaming

Across the rivulet

whose deep clay banks

are heavy with lichens, fern and gypsum,

framed by cypress,

necklaced in liana,

she occurs among the sweetbriars

I planted last fall,

in the sunny spot

where rock, tree and vine converge.

Obscured by leaves and petals,

enigmatic, abstract, complex,

regarding me,

she startles me awake.

Donny Davis, June 2007