http://people.tribe.net/msjared/blog Tribe.net. Local Connections http://people.tribe.net/msjared/blog/00f6cdec-0217-4952-ad7a-7ce5b61e0a7d <div>frequently i dream of dilapidated houses, porches buckle under white snow (sometimes my mother lives there) many rooms fill these houses all sparsely furnished, yellowed wallpaper peeling and stairs that give up halfway through collapsing into a splintery slide into darkness freud was once there at the bottom waiting to catch me at least i think it was him - older man, cigar, white hair and beard, the glasses i wanted to ask him what it all meant, the symbols, their representative purpose but suddenly he changed into an elephant and i was riding him along the beach as a great storm was approaching (waves crashed against condos) another time it was my mother down there in the dark waiting to catch me her arms stretched high her open mouth: a gaping black hole her eyes: wide, empty sockets i screamed in this one tried to claw my way back up the slide but suddenly it changed again and i was sitting in a car with the heater going waiting for the windows to defrost, watching the old farmhouse crumble before me</div> Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:06:49 GMT http://people.tribe.net/msjared/blog/00f6cdec-0217-4952-ad7a-7ce5b61e0a7d msjared 2006-02-04T16:06:49Z