dreams
— A child mistakes an airplane for a star while making a wish, then decides the plane will carry the wish across the world instead.
— During a car ride to a new home, a child imagines creating an elaborate roof garden filled with flowers, vegetables, and herbs.
— A young poet imagines a circus where clowns juggle cookies, lions jump through donuts, and magic makes everything disappear.
— A child observes how her cat's contented tiredness differs from human exhaustion and imagines a world where we could all be tired in that peaceful, satisfied way.
— A girl follows a mysterious fox with blue eyes through the forest at midnight to discover a magical meadow where animals can communicate.
— A child's vision of a starlit doorway where wonder transforms darkness into clarity, eyes become windows to the soul, and grass appears dreamlike.
— A boy picking berries transforms into a squirrel and encounters a starving fox, gaining new understanding of nature's harsh realities through their shared moment.
— A reader transforms into knights, princesses, and trolls while reading beneath a summer tree, until sleep overtakes imagination.
— A Mars colonist on the verge of quitting discovers microbial life when his resignation form accidentally hits the wrong target, triggering a life detector.
— A child's meditation on the moon as companion, comparing it to stars, dreams, a howling dog, and a soft pillow in a series of short, fragmented verses.