28 Jan 2024
Dream
I dreamt that I saw on a news report video that the street I grew up on had become completely overgrown. Just the street, not the houses or gardens. I could see in the video that the road surface wasn't damaged, it just had dirt built up on it was was covered in thick moss. And from all this, these stunning, giant roses were growing. They grew on single stalks, and the flower of each was the size of a backpack. They were all a muted grey and cream, the had the colour of mushrooms, and looked like they were soft and had spread like funghi, but were beautiful. The children in the neighbourhood were running and playing among them, and the smallest children were disappearing beneath the flower heads, they were that tall. I wanted one petal, just one, and longed for it so badly that I asked my young teenage daughter to catch the train across the other side of the city to bring me back one.