Joan Dobbie

DREAM FALLING


I’m falling furiously fast

and yet in slow motion

down 
	down 
		down 

out of the highest heavens

far above the clouds
		
		infinitely fast 
			
			and yet timelessly present

(like it might well have been for

those desperate World Trade Center 

jumpers who tumbled

and flew without wings

to their deaths)

But for me it was life, not death

that ensued since I

landed so softly in long lush grass

where I rolled 
	
		& rolled 
	
			& rolled

in ecstatic joy

All around me was green

		—the color of love—

She’s dying I heard a voice say

No said another voice

She just fell off her bike 

YES I responded as I woke up

YES.  YES   YES
 
Copyright 2024 by Joan Dobbie

Joan Dobbie teaches Hatha Yoga and Meditation at the University of Oregon, from which she also has an MFA in Creative Writing. She is presently president of the Emerald Literary Guild (A.K.A. Lane Literary Guild) based in Eugene, and co-hosts the WINDFALL Reading Series at the Downtown Eugene Public Library. Her poetry website is: joanspoetry.blogspot.com.

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