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Jaime Fradera
Senior Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2000-12-12 11:38 PM

By Jaime Fradera

     It is very early morning.
  I wait beside the road,
wait for the motorcycle,
which is coming from a place
I may not enter.
Soon I hear it-
-the distant drone,
now louder and louder.
My muscles tense,
waiting for the moment,
and as the cycle rushes past me,
without even slowing down,
I jump.
I land between two women,
in a space they saved for me.

     I sit behind the driver,
hanging on for dear life.
behind me sits her friend
who is hanging on to me.
we merge
with the freeway flow
into the city.
In a modulated radio voice,
our driver reads the traffic news
into the station,
but her voice is male
and not her own.
  She is in disguise.
We arrive at a place
where the cycle must be parked,
a place I may not enter.
This time her best friend
is coming with me;
and as the seat flies out beneath us
like synchronized sky divers,
we jump
I bounce, stumble, fall ...
With firm and gentle hands
her best friend steadies me,
helps me to my feet again.
The other now returns,
leads me
to some inner place of her's ...
Her dress shop? ...
Her den? ...
She may now shed her disguise.
Here are tumbled piles of fabrics
strewn wild all around me
on the floor.
we sit, disheveled,
among the chaos of her underclothes
and talk.
Then, in the evening,
when it is time to go,
she asks her friend to help me.

We go to an appointed place,
and as the cycle rushes by,
we jump.

     It is the next morning.
I wait for her
beside the road.
Once more she rushes by,
and at precisely the right moment,
I jump.
There will be no traffic talk today,
though she drives in her disguise;
for there is a pursuer.
she can see him in her mirror,
mouthing curses at the traffic
that blocks his view ahead.
  He doesn't know
we are ahead of him,
doesn't know how close he is.
She watches in relief
as he turns in frustration
off Culebra and is gone.

We reach our destination,
and once again
her best friend helps me jump.
This time our jump is perfect
and we hit the ground together.
Just as on the previous day,
she leads me to her sanctum,
where no one else may enter,
shedding her disguise.
we spend the whole day talking,
disheveled,
our legs entwined,
sitting on the floor,
her lingerie
strewn Wild all around me.
In the evening
it is time to say goodbye.
I stand to embrace her;
she is full and lush and ... nude ...
her cloths
on the floor.

Then she warns me not to kiss her,
apologizing for the problem ...
He might have followed,
might be watching ...
She is terrified of him
and I must leave.

     It is afternoon.
I stand
out on my front porch,
when all at once,
a thunderstorm erupts.
The rain is torrential,
but lasts only a minute.
somehow, in the storm,
somewhere, through my tears,
I understand
why it had to be this way,
why we had to break it off,
why she had to say, goodbye.

What strange things and storylines come to us in dream imagery!



All that you are seeking is also seeking you

Jaime Fradera
Senior Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

1 posted 2000-12-12 11:43 PM

Hi everyone...still trying to figure out a way to reply to you all...but thanks for reading and I hope you know I do read your poems as well...

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

2 posted 2000-12-13 05:50 AM

Hi Jaime....great dream visuals in this one I can just imagine it from your position and it fills me with wonder and awe of the dream and how real it must have been....I'd say this is a work of poetic art in all its dreamlike quality, yet it exudes such basic honesty... write on!! my friend...Eric

Paula Finn
Member Ascendant

since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

3 posted 2000-12-13 02:21 PM

Jaime...this is wonderful...very dreamy...and I can feel it too...the jumps, the falls,,,everything

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

4 posted 2001-12-20 06:44 PM

Next time around, I will be riding that cycle, and then you will have an even bigger dream.

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