Blog | “Dream Of Poe” by Rane Arroyo |
Poe’s been weighing heavily on my mind recently and in an e-mail conversation with the poet-playwright Rane Arroyo, this gem arrived in my in-box.
Dream of Poe
He is young, fresh-faced, and we’re
amigos ready to go to an opera
about dancing horses in the Alps.
A woman with painted arms asks
for directions. The local cemetery
isn’t difficult to find: just die.
We mock the plain crowd in its fineries.
Edgar whispers, I’m very late for a story.
Is it because this opera is terrible
or that these horses cause avalanches?
He exits wearing a beard, a coat
made of winds, and a ripping shadow.
2004
Published: Four Corners, 2005
Story: a dream poem
