{"id":2645,"date":"2026-06-06T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:27:35","slug":"reprise-of-idream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/06\/06\/reprise-of-idream\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprise of IDream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I wrote, not a perfect but at least a good poem, one which began with a real moment of wakening, with a line not perfect but still worth scribbling down.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>I dreamed I wrote a perfect line<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2018<\/p>\n<p>Behind it lay an amorphous shifting shape of sound\u2014like the phantom sounds which Mandelstam put to the beginning of a poem.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, actually May Day, there was more than a sonic shape. Actual words began to fill in. My job was to work with them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>I dreamed I wrote a perfect line.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>I couldn\u2019t tell<br \/>\n<\/i><i>The form into which it fell<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i>Emptied of words, only a shape<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Triolet, pantoum, villanellea<\/i> <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Or this<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I<i> dreamed I wrote a perfect line.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Morning come, it was erased.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Emptied of words, but a shape<br \/>\n<\/i><i>of sound, unknown&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Pantoum, triolet, villanelle&#8230;<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><b>Finally<\/b>, the next morning, it fell together. So I thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>I dreamed I wrote a perfect line<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Morning come, it was erased.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>All that sleep time gone to waste.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Was it by hap or by design<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>To be continued <i>&#8230;<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I wrote, not a perfect but at least a good poem, one which began with a real moment of wakening, with a line not perfect but still worth scribbling down.\u00a0 I dreamed I wrote a perfect line. \u2018 Behind it lay an amorphous shifting shape of sound\u2014like the phantom sounds which Mandelstam put &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/06\/06\/reprise-of-idream\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reprise of IDream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}