Dreams are our futures
sharing with our pasts,
and we their interpreters,
frustrating the first
and misunderstanding the latter.
We rewrite our pasts
every time
In large cauldrons, hard winter wheat, washed in seven unbegun waters, had been boiling for hours, until it turned soft and chewy, and shed its hard shell. During all this time it was stirred, and whispered incantations and blessings.
She was immediately terrified of the new boundary, the one she could see in the distance, that place where the waters fell off the earth into only God knew what.