dreaming aphrodite

[ellenkushner]

Colorful dreams this morning of lying in bed in an airplane with a plate glass picture window at our feet, looking down at landscape - fields, towns, stone cottages, all in dim greens and greys and browns while it banked to land. Then a foot-high stone statue of Aphrodite in a niche, more primitive than not, with round breasts and belly. She was also a lively, attractive young black woman with long braids, and a white wolf who asked me my wish. No fool, and knowing she was a symbol, I said, "I want to love you and be loved by you."

Then the alarm went off.