"I'm doing a reading that night and so is Jean but in different places and I don't know how to reach her or Andrew or the vague choir of boys swimming in my mind or why I even need to reach the vague choir (except for another fix of beauty)."
— Klein, Michael
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Work Title
Date
Winter 2011
Metaphor
"I'm doing a reading that night and so is Jean but in different places and I don't know how to reach her or Andrew or the vague choir of boys swimming in my mind or why I even need to reach the vague choir (except for another fix of beauty)."
Metaphor in Context
I'm doing a reading that night and so is Jean but in different places and I don't know how to reach her or Andrew or the vague choir of boys swimming in my mind or why I even need to reach the vague choir (except for another fix of beauty). And I'm suddenly thinking mundanely (the way a schedule feels mundane and sharp in a dream), who will I have dinner with?
And so I just start walking, broken sneaker in hand, down a street of trees, trees, the first trees all day, their first appearance in the dream. And I see a woman dressed up for a performance of some kind because she is carrying a trumpet in a leather case and is dressed in that way musicians who play classical music get dressed—between inspired and formal, black usually with sneakers—and I say, I know you and she says, I know you and then she says, Lisa Epstein, Music and Art and I say, that's right, and then I say, Michael Klein.
And so I just start walking, broken sneaker in hand, down a street of trees, trees, the first trees all day, their first appearance in the dream. And I see a woman dressed up for a performance of some kind because she is carrying a trumpet in a leather case and is dressed in that way musicians who play classical music get dressed—between inspired and formal, black usually with sneakers—and I say, I know you and she says, I know you and then she says, Lisa Epstein, Music and Art and I say, that's right, and then I say, Michael Klein.
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Michael Klein, "Image Results for the Sky," Fence 13:2 (2011). <Link to Fence Magazine>
Date of Entry
07/25/2011
