\nThe Eglantine Deal <\/b><\/p>\n
We\u2019re both on our knees to someone only we see.<\/p>\n
There is a gold coffin suspended in space,<\/p>\n
haze like a soft and distant drum-roll<\/p>\n
(Schumann\u2019s nocturne)
\n<\/p>\n
the purpose: to get to Noah\u2019s Ark <\/p>\n
\nCowboy and Dog and Horse, of course \u2014 spots of white paper along the freeway <\/p>\n
spooking the Horse. Coffee and poncho and cups with the face cards all over them. <\/p>\n
\nThis person feels safe in the world, this person is a boy becoming a man, an owl evolving <\/p>\n
in the hum and singsong arms of redwoods. He is astonishing because he knows you will forgive him, because he knows it isn\u2019t up to you to forgive. Covered in a clear-white layer of goodness the other side of his mind has created, he troubles you by bringing your weakness into the circle of light his arms pretend, telling you in an offhand way that <\/p>\n
you, too, are received \u2014 <\/p>\n
\nThe white butterfly <\/p>\n
bridge dream: he rode<\/p>\n
to tell us something before <\/p>\n
he changed. <\/p>\n
\nAnd we find what by the riverbed? <\/p>\n
\nKneeling in the church \u2014 this could just as well be a bench off a park trail \u2014 (the intangibles, cherries and goblets) \u2014 he relates his dream. It is of being licked <\/p>\n
on the side of the head by a large wolf-dog. On burial ground. <\/p>\n
\nThe girl would like to play Hansel to his Gretel. <\/p>\n
\nHe meets his supplier friends and after, walking through the hills, he sees her. At first, he thinks she is a vision. She isn\u2019t. She sits on the side of the hill with her knees drawn up, scent of azurine and a cream-white dog. Later she takes him to the magic circle of wishing trees. She lives in the hills, has no other home. <\/p>\n
\nShe believes in the butterfly, <\/p>\n
in the eye of the wolf-dog<\/p>\n
at her feet, in the smoke trailing <\/p>\n
from her hut\/cabin in the woods. <\/p>\n
\nHe dances in the rain for her<\/p>\n
one night, flapping his poncho<\/p>\n
to make a point, making wolf <\/p>\n
and turkey sounds. Other times, <\/p>\n
he is nothing so much as<\/p>\n
a deer. She watches him<\/p>\n
as he watches her. <\/p>\n
\nShe wears a Maya of the Wolves\/Raquel Welch top the first time, made of animal skin and tan. She tells him almost right away about her dream of the perfect trail, how it wound around past the bend, past the familiar boulder she and the horse knew. <\/p>\n
\nWe also need a character dedicated to sheer, strong laughter \u2014 not a fool but one with a bird\u2019s eye view, a this-too-shall-pass wisdom. <\/p>\n
\nHe says, \u201cI don\u2019t know why I am doing this for you, but…\u201d <\/p>\n
\nLast shot would be of him in a Little-Prince scarf, a hint of cigarette, his frame long and skinny, standing with a blue-white globe at his feet \u2014 a bouquet of flowers off to the right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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