index

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Spent the weekend working on the index to my book of dreams. These are the people who have appeared in my dreams over the last two years: Andrew Bishop, Angella Theriot, William Martin, Bill Stiles, Bonnie Franklin, Bob Dylan, Brad Pitt, Carole King, Debbie Allen, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Emily Bronte, Farrah Fawcett, Father Columban Lesquivit, Gail Courville, Jim Carrey, Joanna Newsom, Joni Mitchell, Liza Minnelli, Lucinda Williams, Miranda Blanchard, Robyn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sting, Shannon Nae Nae Murdock, Sue Theriot, Sufjan Stevens, Theodore Roosevelt, Timothy Frederick, Valerie Bertinelli, Yolande Doiron.

cabbage garden

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a face, lifted

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Every now and then, in the early morning just before I awake, words will scroll before my eyes in my dream, often in fully formed sentences. This happened to me one morning about six years ago. All these sentences kept scrolling in my dream. I could read them very clearly. And as the sentences scrolled, I floated down a gravel road, the gravel road to the camp in Catahoula, formerly known as the OLD PLACE, because my dad grew up there. These are the words I woke up and wrote down. The title came later.

mossy gaze

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gravel road

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dream no. 1

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the stitcher of sheep

photo: timothy frederick

A LITTLE LADY lives comfortably in the head of a happy giant. She never sleeps. She’s always cooking up some project or perfecting a complex routine.

dust jacket author photo

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cypress silhouette

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changing channels

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The windshield you’re looking through is a curved slab of glass fitted into the front window of your car, an inner version of your outer perimeter of vision, serving to frame what’s important to see while you’re rolling down the road, invisible enough to see what you’re driving toward as clearly as possible while still protecting you from the elements, and coated with thin layers of plastic to prevent shattered glass, in the event of an accident, from being sprayed into your face.

train view

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crystal with laser

photo: andrew bishop

midtown houston

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somn

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Low gray clouds are sweeping across a gray and blue sky this morning, polishing the moon's disc silvery.

dust jacket idea

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