BEYOND THE STORIES

After story-time, the tele Soap: those innate bedtime dramas,

lies not only respite and integration

but the reasons for, meanings

and implications.

From cave to castle or cottage,

• is it the late afternoon, the time of year or season,

the sun sloping towards the equinox?

Or childhood memory of fey otherworlds' alluring;

of creatures and beings,

anthropomorphised bears and frogs

or cross-eyed, heroic combobulates: 

wizards, oracles or embodied archetypes of symbol or myth

that talk to and with our sub and under-psyches, fluently,

in mutual communement

round the hearth or campfire,

or via cinema or tele-screens

 the bodyminds’ agog for that phantasmatic lift-off inbetween.

Transiting from one dream-matrix to another 

softly like tears falling

or summer rain,

the turn of a tide -

a tipping into soporific zones

of enchanted reverse.