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5.27.2026 6:41 AM

Poetry

A Complicated Dream Told as if Included in Akira Kurosawa’s Final Film, Dreams by Nora Rawn

A Complicated Dream Told as if Included in Akira Kurosawa’s Final Film, Dreams

Daughter I don’t have, her small outstretched hand,
On the road as four generations:

Mother and grandmother,
And the grandmother stealing her away.

Riding a storm cloud rolling in,
Queen of the Night steals her,

Child’s open mouth frozen against a black
Sky of stars as she disappears. Scene.

And now a wonderful hotel, Scotland heath,
Scotland mist rolling across yellow heather,

Fire in the hearth needing intercession
From a Hindu goddess, Goddess appearing,

Another cloud descends, flame from
Her outstretched hands,

Creating too from her bounty an organ,
Red viscera, a couple who appear.

A couple seeking a child.
Their dog speaks, knows all;

The first love arrives on the road.
Stands in the road, receiving offerings.

Snacks proffered to another woman also.
A hand holding out a tray,

Sterling service, doily. Scene.
Family wealth from the diamond mine,

The maw gaping. Glitter inside. Death.
Blood on the diamonds, glittering.

Everyone is there. Music flows. End. I wish
To return, but am awake and cannot go back. It flows on.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Nora Rawn works in subrights in publishing and lives in Brooklyn. She has pieces published or forthcoming in Dodo Eraser, Dreck Lit, Be About It Press, Hawkeye, Burial Magazine, Some Words, and Michigan City Review of Books among others. She is on twitter at @norabird