Dream 20: *So

I was at the airport desperate

to find a rhinoceros.

I saw a man I was looking for, too,

but kept missing him. In the meantime,

I uncovered a covert Russian art deal

going down in a garage offsite in a desolate hangar.

I distinctly remember opening the front of the hangar

like a freight elevator. Someone’s mother called

on the Princess phone & said we were all out way past curfew.

Then three Japanese girls knelt at my feet, telling me I had wrapped

my leopard-scarved clogs incorrectly.

The cell phone text kept reading:

“ *SO ”.

Photo By: japp1967

Lina ramona Vitkauskas is the author of SPINY RETINAS (Mutable Sound, 2014); Professional Poetry (White Hole Press, 2013); A Neon Tryst (Shearsman Books, 2013); HONEY IS A SHE (Plastique Press, 2012); and THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press, 2010).

She is the recipient of the Henry Miller Memorial Library Ping Pong Journal Prize (selected by Eleni Sikelianos) and The Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading Award (selected by Brenda Hillman).

Publications include Spork, Coconut, The Awl, DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, The Chicago Review, The Toronto Quarterly—among many others.

With Larry Sawyer, she has co-edited milk magazine (since 1999). She has also served as a part-time faculty member at the Chicago School of Poetics for 2011-2013. Her website is www.linaramona.com.