Dreaming of Lesbos
I can enter the morning with traces of an eternal dream: to live
on a planet of women. we sing in the fertile forest, caress on
lavender hills, bathe beneath cascades of clear waters. and just
like that, nude and wet, we mount each other’s bodies. our
desire is a whale that searches for calm in the depth of the sea.
I smell sex in my hair when I awaken.
the dream perfumes all of my days. I go to the post office and
look for stamps with etchings of flowers and fruits so that I can
send letters to the women who loved me in my sleep.
we are in a world that is not ours. what do we do with the
dreams that touch our consciousness in the nude each night?
our planet of women is nothing more than a dream. who knows
how many of us bathe in the woods or which ones of us have
wings that let us fly with our flesh? it’s not for anyone to know.
fortunately, we always dream paradise, we make it ours. there,
we find each other and live in our collective memory.
and so, I smell sex in my hair when I awaken.
Copyright Credit: tatiana de la tierra, "Dreaming of Lesbos" from For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology / Para las duras: Una fenomenología lesbiana published by A Midsummer Night's Press and Sinister Wisdom. Copyright © 2002 by tatiana de la tierra. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of tatiana de la tierra.