Category: Dream Interviews

  • The sheer, blue forces of summer

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 10, 2012 A slight but dazzling male blue butterfly, Lycaiedes melissa (Melissa Blue), enjoying the golden afternoon sunlight, inadvertently careers into the flesh of a human female’s cheekbone. Although the woman weighs approximately 18 million times (yes) the weight of the insect, she is knocked over. It is allegedly not…

  • Deer-ly beloved: more backyard interviews

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 14, 2011 MCW: [sneaking up, broom raised] Ha! I knew it! You again. Backyard Deer freezes mid-chew, staring straight ahead. MCW: Look at this devastation! All my hanging strawberry tendrils, and all the pansies. Gone. Backyard Deer’s right nostril inadvertently flares. MCW: Puh-lease. Spare me the frozen act, and the…

  • Stardate 73521.3 (A Midsummer Night’s Dream Interpretation)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Dust motes hang in the watery late-afternoon light. Recumbent on a velvet couch, I am stroking the sensuous fabric. But my skin is dry. There’s a hangnail. Where am I? How did I get here? I suddenly feel the weight and form of a pastry in my other…

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream Interview

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 2, 2010 MCW:  So, not to embarrass you or anything, but the first day I saw you, this spring? You were sitting in a fir tree in my front yard, looking cold and helpless. Your wings held the quiet of the world. I had pity. HBird: Is that a question,…