by B. R. GOWANI
“Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening” by Salvador Dali. The woman in the painting is Dali’s wife Gala. About his painting “Sleep” Dali said: “I have often imagined the monster of sleep as a heavy, giant head with a tapering body held up by the crutches of reality. When the crutches break we have the sensation of falling.”
fractured images
questionable logic
enigmatic situations
Marcello Mastroianni in 8½
distorted and disfigured bodies
A’s face with B’ body acting like C with D’s style
situations, locations, and characters takes on different and/or combined and strange identities
…
are the ingredients the dreams are made up of
just like Dali’s surrealistic paintings
but not always
hectic day prevented H2O consumption
so had to be gulped at bedtime
(mostly avoided, for undisturbed sleep)
the journey began
many stops, different scenes
but the final one, the climax
was a reality, rather a virtual reality
nothing was disjointed
nor was it a fantasy
the same face, the same body, the same identity, the same voice, the same gait
the distance had lost its dominance
the nearness had gained an upper hand
the smile, the giggle
the extended arms
the smell
the embrace, the intimacy
all had the original integrity
just at 4 ante meridiem
the H2O effect caused disturbance
everything of that final stage was vividly clear
Descartian thought enveloped the mind:
was that the real state or is this the real one?
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com