the creative dreamer’s dream?
Dreamily closing their eyes as sleep calls them: the ancestors, friends, and family, dying alone in dream.
TO DIE ALONE IN DREAM BY CHRISTOPHER KENNETH HANSON 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 137
Into the far future? when dreams are perhaps, ever-explicitly tangible for all:
ways of entertainment, exchange, currency, and indeed life itself shifts, changes—
the so-known dream-maker of united dimensional worlds creates
a network of creative dreamers—perhaps, another new world
opens via one of their imagination stations—more unstable than the others?
For it relies on dreams that are not full frequencies, not fully formed and yet they function
hazily, wispily-crackling static fading in-out like a multi-sensory radio?
Creative dreamers make dreams realized in terms of true sensation—
new worlds are called: like none other heretofore,
the creative dreamer’s dream becomes a quasi-dimensional reality?
Was it only a matter of time?
A venture into the dark recesses of an otherwise distant dream—
dreamers who venture into the world creating some of the most
vivid and imaginative type works that humanity or artificial intelligence/robots
have to offer. They are in fact conscious without bodies, portraying sensations to ongoing universal-type streams of wanderers, mystics, shaman types—they, more sentient than the others prior or present. Dreamily closing their eyes as sleep calls them: the ancestors, friends, and family, dying alone in dream.
CHRISTOPHER KENNETH HANSON
Poetry is a business when it comes to magazine editors. There often needs to be editing and revision, which is fine. But submitting is typically about what the editors want, not about the writer. I didn’t fully understand this when I was starting out writing poetry. I can be declined and yet keep on submitting because my poetry is about experimentation and play. With poetry submissions I can fail and not think the writing is bad or wrong. The way I write poetry is innovative, perhaps not technically sound, but innovative. A poem can be innovative but not done “formally” or “composed soundly/skillfully”. And a poem can be “composed properly” using sonnet form, sestina etc and not be innovative. Privately, I write whatever and whenever I like. Private writing is more freeing in terms of style/verse play. I started writing poetry as a teenager because I wanted to communicate with the world. I still write for that reason. I write poetry because I want to and I need to. And I want folks to read my work. The way that the poetry “comes out” is in a notebook written with a pen furiously and at times on a computer notepad. I can write nonsense and non-sequential words and phrases and eventually they will filter into verse and poetry that makes sense. If they don’t, if I fail that is, I write more until I have more material, phrases, nonsense etc. to shape and mold into poetic verse. I would love to see a poet laureate in New Jersey again. Other States have poet laureates, why not NJ? NJ had two poet laureates, Gerald Stern and Amiri Baraka. The Governor abolished the position in 2003 after Baraka gave a reading of his poem Somebody Blew Up America, which stirred a “political firestorm” in the media. Most US States have a poet laureate. Idaho has a Writer in Residence, Alaska has a State Writer Laureate, and New York has a State Poet and a State Author. Massachusetts has never had a poet laureate, Michigan had one between 1952 and 1959, Pennsylvania abolished the post in 2003 the same year as New Jersey.