"All good writing is swimming underwater holding your breath."  F. Scott Fitzgerald

As poems are often a condensed, concise form of writing, "Dreaming Dreams Dreamed" inhabits a somewhat compressed, not exactly sequential, more humanly messy version of the "Heroic Cycle". Also, since heroes can come in either gender and sometimes incorporate both simultaneously, please accept the word hero hereafter as gender neutral.

First Stanza

dazed

striding over

pale fluorescent floors

crashing through

outdoors

The Hero crashes onto the scene mixing several elements of "The Cycle". Already in motion (striding) both away from an implied pursuer, "The Call to Adventure", and toward peace, "The Atonement", "The Knowledge", the drink of wisdom from the well at the end of the earth. "The Call" is often seen as frighteningly overwhelming and so inciting confusion, desperation, even panic.

A building with fluorescent lighting installed beneath translucent flooring is likely an imposing structure made so by either cost or scale. "Pale fluorescent floors," hints that this protagonist, by virtue of having access to such a grand structure, like say Gatsby's mansion for instance, holds high stature and is thereby one worthy of receiving "The Call". Heroic characters are generally uncommonly common. Common enough to be identifiable while at the same time uncommonly larger than life.

The line, "crashing through outdoors" speaks to a compelling urgency as well as designating a "Threshold Crossing" signaling insinuation of "The Call" and thereby transition to another plane.  

Second Stanza

sunburst blow

bewildered stagger fall

mansion marble stairway down

spatter bash boned

tumble clown

Nods to the stunning and bedazzling immensity of "The Call to Adventure" and the extraordinary standing of a "Hero" even when pictured as clownish. The clown, though representative of inferior regard, i.e. the fool, the idiot, the lesser, is nonetheless not only extraordinary but also simultaneously viewed as having a mystic relationship with the hidden world. Village idiots are "teched in the head" because they are considered to have been touched by the hand of the almighty.

The line, "mansion marble stairway" adds further illustration of wealth and high station and points toward a revered background.

Third Stanza

lain listless bleeding

quick wriggles course meander

plum drops plopped emulsions couple

clotting fountains purple flow

elastic larvae supple

Here again the connection between worthiness and powers extordinaire becomes evident. Though the Hero has been laid low and weakened there are powers apparent in the blood, the essence. Trickling into the fountain it possesses a strange coagulating property that can turn the gushing water into some sort of squirming squid-like creature. Such introduces the Hero's supernatural quality and implies the ability not only to recover and continue, but also the presence of a congenital capacity to successfully endure "Trials" and subdue adversity. 

Fourth Stanza

quiver columns

basin caught conceive

emerging Gatsby, Gatsby smiled

primal salmon leap

transmigration dialed

The water creature's tentacles born of the transmografying blood gives rise as well to a first magnitude figure or vision of Gatsby himself, "The Mentor", who with his quintessentially affirming smile, bestows the guiding grace upon the hero who needs it's benediction to continue pursuit of the grand journey.

Gatsby had, "... one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself."  From The Great Gatsby

The Hero is likewise bequeathed transcendent power by recognizing Gatsby's symbolic "salmon leap" as the height of virile strength, the power to create, and so acquires "The Ally". Thusly equipped the Hero is ready to face the bullies of paradox.

More "Trial", "Threshold Crossing" and worthiness are demonstrated as well by the Hero's interpretive intelligence.

Fifth Stanza

harmony

diametrically opposed

brawling storms enwound

vortex passage

found

On more equal footing with the Gods, the Hero is able to discern the true path obscured to mere mortals by the squalls and tempests of duality. The Hero sees the calm in the eye of the hurricane a hidden portal to the other world. The Hero's most profound trial won leads toward the ultimate achievement of "The Knowing" in company with again further "Threshold Crossing". 

Sixth Stanza

crystal daybreak

bubble blue above

straddling seductive glancing green

nemeses clinching crushed

silver inbetween

Stepping completely out of the confines of human experience and into the realm of beatific otherness, the Hero "Approaches" to be confronted with the landscape of the eternal dynamo, the dualistic engine that drives all being. Here the incongruously magnetic division of sex, one of the most obvious and intense dualities, flirts in the foreplaying portrayal of gigantic forces relentlessly enmeshed. Land and sea are each locked in a perpetual compulsion and active effort to consume the other with only a precariously thin strand between them preventing an annihilation suggestive of a matter versus anti-matter sort.

Seventh Stanza

time ridden worlds

dampened lovers dew caressed

limbs mad obsessive grapple craves

one easy angry resolution

rush discordant waves

Here in "Seventh Heaven", the Hero is initiated and made privy to the pervasive, perpetual congress of antinomies drawing the line between time and the timeless. Anyone less than a Hero would be driven to madness, hence another affirmation of worthiness.

Eighth Stanza

clashing wild

eyed wizard glaring

blaze branded lightning bright

syblline ladened soul

quaking white

Now in complete concert with "The One", "Atonement" (At-one-ment, the state of being as one with the universe), the Hero is enraptured by and infused with the brilliant burning light that brands "The Knowledge" into his brain. Another turn of phrase might have the Hero taming the bucking boson and so apprehend the distinction between the ubiquitous fuzz and a probability spike that observes the quantum collapse. The Hero has been anointed with omniscience by surviving "The Ordeal" and deservedly reaps a universal understanding.

Ninth Stanza

clasp

torn hurling

curling backward yawn

shutter lunge

gone

Although The Hero walks with the Gods for a while, the mortal world demands a return, "The Summons", in order for all to be right with the universe. The Hero must come full circle. Balance must and will be preserved via cosmic homeostasis. No matter how preferable "The Other" may be the Hero is required to repair to the journey's beginning. After all the passport was stamped guest status only.

Tenth Stanza

flashing off

lost emerald star

soaring sacred sky beyond

twilight's last gleaming

night pond

The Hero reconciles with the world of motion, and though grieving the loss, Romantically accedes to the inevitable. It's a wrapping up of "The Return's" loose ends. The Hero waxes nostalgic. This acceptance once more goes to adamant spirit and worthiness. Only a "true blooded" Hero has the wherewithal to know when to let go. It's because Heroes are aware of their proper place in the grand scheme. Without letting go madness would be the result.

The symbol in this specific instance is Gatsby's dream of the "lost emerald star":

"And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." From The Great Gatsby

The line, "twilight's last gleaming", lifted from the United States national anthem, pays passing homage to Fitzgerald's fascination with Americana and his place in American literature. Actually, "The Red, White & Blue" was among Fitzgerald's first working titles before settling upon The Great Gatsby. Tangentially, I contend that any arguments about the great American novel are moot. Fitzgerald has already cornered that market.

Eleventh Stanza

song still lingers

swimming well deep beneath

black waters moonlight mirrored mild

ascending image long remembered

Gatsby, Gatsby smiled

Now fully returned to the everyday there comes a denouement or circle rounded of sorts. Because Gatsby has been the identified vehicle, it is Gatsby's transcendent smile that prompts the Hero to deliver the message, insight, gospel, elixir that's been bequeathed. There's a "share the wealth" responsibility incumbent upon the Hero, obliged by supernatural subpoena, to divulge any mystic messages which have been acquired during adventures to the other side, hidden world, paradise, nirvana etc. Delivery of the "The Knowledge" is the goal of the whole damn venture.

Twelfth and Thirteenth Stanzas

fine mornings

tiny voices sing

row row row your

boat gently down

the stream

merrily

merrily merrily

merrily life is

but a

dream

And so the "grand word", the perfect understanding is shared. Listen, observe and know.

The line, "fine mornings" and boat rowing reflects The Great Gatsby's summation:

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic (verbatim correct, but possibly should be orgasmic) future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning - 

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Enjambment - noun - The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.

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