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Bess Genevra Streeter
by Barry Carter

What binds dreamer to dream?

Did a girl collect the moon's

Reflections from Nebraskan

Streams to expand an inner

Pearl around which narratives

Would orbit.

Cedar falls, Elmswood twinned

Like two dreaming winds that

Intersect to blow fruit from

Branches of time for a writer

To find in moonlit orchards

Of her imagination.

Readers tears fall onto

Pages of first publication,

Characters drowned in

The tears of time. Do winds

Age, books in a library about

Heartland/Plains, to gage

Time and space, preserving

Themes like sleeper locked

Into a dream consumed

By sound of Nebraskan

Rivers, are eyes reflected

On water caught in those

Of migrating birds. Clouds

Are like eyes moving across

Words. Fingertips are

Imperceptible on book

Spines, binding love of

Generations.

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