Tiffany Hickox

“At the point of waking, as at no other time, it is possible to hold dreams. And even then, it is only for a few seconds: the moment when you are awake enough to realize you are still asleep. And whatever dream is with you, for that one moment, becomes tangible. You are able to touch it, stroke it, like a tame animal asleep in your lap. And you can feel the softness of his fur and the gradualness of his movements as he wakes slowly, stretching each paw out in front of him, licking the darkness from his whiskers, before he leaps away from you, taking his warmth with him, and leaving his with you.”
― Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe

“World, turn all you want to,
faster even. I've come to like the way the breeze feels
as it rips me limb from limb.

and I'm running the city water now
in a sink safe from harm, and across
the surface of most states there's
a phone ringing and a somebody's lost a
somebody, and a somebody's come
home, and I'm unmoved in the kitchen
pulling wings out of my teeth, praying
for loads more wishes and a body
out there waiting for this somebody
in the kitchen waiting to be done stung.

You mis everyone. Even the people you read about today
you didn't know, their faces on the brain as if on paper.

Maybe you don't even say it for yourself,
maybe you move your mouth like everyone
moves their mouth. Maybe your mouth is the same
mouth as everyone's, all trying to say the same thing.

You come home on the train and you have
bought gifts and tried to be decent.”
― Ada Limon, Sharks in the Rivers

“Last night I dreamed—blessed illusion—
that I had a beehive here
in my heart
and that the golden bees were making
white combs and sweet honey
from my old failures.

— Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee: Poems (HarperCollins, 2009)”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Honeybee: Poems and Short Prose

“She read about dreams made of sunlight and plums, and dreams made of ice; dreams that glowed in the dark, dreams made of unwound fingerprints, dreams that flew away like a lost kite string.”
― Michelle Cuevas, The Dreamatics