MATING OF CATS (November 16, 2011)

I dreamt that two of my friends were fascinated by the mating of cats. One was a sculptor. His bronze statues had an Egyptian feel about them. Cats on top of each other were a frequent theme in his work. I remember acquainting him with another friend, who had published a great deal about the mating of cats. He was not a scientist, but he spent a lot of his time carefully observing both wild and domestic cats, as well as recording his observations. Their mating behavior was in his focus all the time. In my dream, I dedicated several haiku to the work of the two friends, who were delighted to meet each other. I do not remember any of the poems, but I introduced a new way of their recording. To form letters, I used a template with circles, squares, and line segments related to the two. The paper I used was lined. The geometric letters danced along the lines. The one-hundred and sixty characters of each poem, including spaces, formed a regular array, one per page. The rest of my dream shifted from the mating of cats to the graphics of the poems. By the time I woke up, I could still remember how I formed several letters, but I quickly decided to stick to the old way of recording my haiku.