In the dream, there are two horses who are running at the same time
and in the same place. They are both running from a barn fire, on the plains.
On the plains, they are running until the World is starting
to turn into the West and the plains are blurring together.
In another dream, they are running until the end, or until they fall off
the far edge of the western country. They are following the map
where the shortgrasses stretch as far as the eye can see, and the sound of
the river is all and fading. Tomorrow, when the earth has come and gone,
it leaves nothing but the four riders: two horses: two lives forsaken.
You are standing at the center of a crossroads with four different paths
to choose from. Two of them are the right paths. Two others are the wrong
paths. This is your choice. This is your doing, undoing.
This is how the dream plays out:
You are a horse and you have been a horse all your life.
You are running somewhere you remember from another life
and besides you there is another horse. You remember this
horse from another life.
And the life becomes whole.
Everything becomes whole.
Your hoove, once broken, back again. The other horse
is now also a boy again.
No more running. You are in the hospital room. The other
boy is in the hospital bed. And everything looks so small
from above, from a bird’s eye-view - like a God, silent and watching.
He looks into the light /
He looks into your eyes
and his lips, once broken, back again, their cracked pink again,
mouth tell me about the dream
where we are brothers. tell me about the dream so this can
become real. & you are twelve years old again. You are a
boy alone in the locker room again. Everything looks so small
from above. Bird : God .
In the dream, there is a reed on the shore of a lake somewhere.
A wave swims up to the shore. Over days, they
fall in love over days until winter comes and the lake freezes
over and the reeds begin to die.
And still then, they are two but two dead things.
Two still bodies. This is the end of the story.
No more monsters. No more stories.
The boy says tell me we are still made of
the same blood. tell me this is not how it must end.