Owls woke to tell the time to all of those who listen

[sovay]

Last night's dreams, clearly Goya-influenced: right as I was falling asleep, a vivid blink of a great country house at night; the sense of the sea somewhere near or behind it. Small owl-masked figures were moving on the lawn, not dancing, exactly, but moving in concerted patterns, silently, swooping, spinning. It was not possible to see whether, behind their masks, their faces were human.

Later, after I had woken and fallen asleep again, I don't know where the bakeneko on the fringe theater tour came from.

Comments

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

If you can find a story to frame this, I'd love to read that.

[sovay]

If you can find a story to frame this, I'd love to read that.

I certainly wouldn't mind if one turned up. I'm not sure my prose is working right now, though.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Or a poem?

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Now you have me settling down to sleep in hope of art-influenced dreams, preferably something out of Vermeer or Chagall or reminiscent of the Alhmabra.

[sovay]

Now you have me settling down to sleep in hope of art-influenced dreams, preferably something out of Vermeer or Chagall or reminiscent of the Alhmabra.

Who did you get?

(I like Chagall.)

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I'd like to try that experiment, too!

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

I got this instead.

[sovay]

I got this instead.

That seems unfair.

I mean, I know an excellent poem about baiji—Cassandra Phillips-Sears' "The Last Yangtze River Dolphin," reprinted in The Moment of Change—but still.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Yep, I know that poem too *sigh*

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Small owl-masked figures were moving on the lawn, not dancing, exactly, but moving in concerted patterns, silently, swooping, spinning.

O my. I want the footage.

Nine

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I was saying that it reminded me of this, that you posted some years ago!

[sovay]

I want the footage.

If it turns into a story, I will let you know.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

How beautiful. Reminds me of this photo that nineweaving posted long ago.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Oh my stars, that's spooky.

[sovay]

How beautiful. Reminds me of this photo that nineweaving posted long ago.

I don't even remember that photo! Thank you for resurrecting it.

This was definitely Goya. The primary colors I remember were amber and black.