Dream of Pastries

  by Chris Dietz
 
4 PM on summer Saturday, 1967
the great deluge on pins & needles
because I have succeeded in holding it back
how to deal with big breakables
 
I am 15, alone
sitting on a lawn chair
in the TV room
like a Moon Man
or a Moth Man
I am afraid I will disintegrate
what is there to grab on
 
Out of the dirt at the bottom of the bag
of my consciousness
connect
TV thriller
The Prisoner
 
Mod dream of bubbles
and I know bubbles so well
so mark this moment
'I am here'
 
42 years later
I put on the DVD
The Prisoner
and I know that mark
 
'Hello, down there
I see you
hang on, it ain't so bad
you'll do fine'