i'm watching tunnel lights whizzing by my window on BART. my train is traveling too fast for my stomach, so i zoom out until i'm looking at my own tiny peaked face far away on the other side of the glass. i take hold of the end of the train with my giant hand, peel it from the tracks and swing it around my head like a lasso. once i gain enough momentum, i release it from this orbit to hurtle out into space. as the train blazes through the atmosphere, flames eat away at its outer layer, revealing a serpent inside. looks like a water snake - meaty and yellow-eyed with large, thin, silvery scales.
i am this snake. i zoom around among wispy clouds of gas and marvel at metals sparkling on passing asteroids, all illuminated by the distant sun. without enduring the atmosphere, i'm suddenly terrestrial again, watching the snake floating finely above a glassy pond. it's someplace incomparably ethereal. each redwood tree, every flower petal is so crystal clear it has a bluish hue, hung with a layer of mist and an aura of untouchable peace. the snake drifts elegantly down into the surface of this pool, down through cool luminous water to the soft depths. its body collides with the springy, elastic bottom, and delicately sheds, revealing me inside. the dead skin remains earthbound and i continue to rise upward with the bounce, out of the abandoned scales, through the slow murk of disrupted clay and mud.
a switch in perspective, to the outskirts of this pond. looking through eyes peeping from the dusk of pine trees, watching this naked body gently glide, face upward toward the surface, as though pulled by an invisible cord extending from my diaphragm. when i emerge, i keep floating lightly up into the air, glowing.
then someone taps my leg and i open my eyes, ambushed by the dimly lit loft, my friends' bleary eyes and the smell of cold pizza. whoaa dude you dont even know where i just WENT man...
