Five Dreams

By Elizabeth Michaud

Elizabeth Michaud's debut collection creeps into consciousness the way echoes of place and people weave through slumber-a storied patchwork recollecting love and loss and longing. With narrative lyricism and an imaginative prowess for keen social commentary and th

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elizabeth Michaud
• Release date: Jun 8, 2024
• ISBN: 9798988727521

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Published in the United States of America

First Published, 2023

For my three great loves, my children:

Sara, Stella, and Ben.

FIVE DREAMS

Table of Contents

FIVE DREAMS

I Dream of You

For Him

Infatuation

Summoner's Dance

Stop Toying With Me

As Sting is My Witness

Have No Doubt

The Proposal

Of Love & Woe

Torn

Lovers as the Gods Intended

An (Alliterative) Affair

Of Bitter Dreams & Slumber

This Breach is Only Temporary

Come Back

I Dream of Twins

Old Tree

Old Tree Begs Forgiveness

My Statue of Liberty, Part I

My Statue of Liberty, Part II

A Book, a Tome, and an Escapade

A Train, a Circue, and a Flight of Fancy

Quest

Quest Aborted

Love Travels On, Part One: Her

Love Travels On, Part Two: Him

White Walls, Part I

White Walls, Part II

Wife

Spring Cleaning

I Dream of Sorrow

For Tante Cecelle

Requiem for a Wake

Put Flowers on my Grave

The Meaningless Process of Goodbye

Too Little, Too Late

The WIsh of a Battered Soul

Once in Faith

Grief Unrelenting

Grief of Ghosts

I Have Strange Dreams

In the Eye of the Heavenly Storm

To the Wind with Gratitude

Grave Digger

Faculty Meeting

Accident

She Walks the Gravel Road

Sightless

There's Poetry Everywhere

You Talk of Freedom

Tragic Lies

A Summer Gathering

NIghtmares

Ghost

The Wind is His Messenger

Let the Sounds be a Warning

The Naming of Her

The Devil's Harlot

Black Widow

Rat

Intruder

An Angel Will Lead Him Home

Last Words

I DREAM OF YOU

FOR HIM

There is an art to waiting patiently.

It is grace in restraint and calm in expectation,

and there is a virtuosity in wanting without receiving,

strength in denial, fortitude in disappointment.

And so it is with longing,

that curious emotion between patience and desire,

that resides in the most tender part of the soul,

unresolved, unsettled,

but achingly beautiful, nonetheless.

INFATUATION

take these reckless sighs I breathe

and this weakness in my knees

take this lurid sideways glance

these giddy words of happenstance

take this wetness between my thighs

take these shudders from my spine

take these tingles in