the girl who fell to earth and just where she landed (last night's dream)

the girl fell to earth
in the grass
by a house
in a scene that reminds me
a little
of christina's world
she was startled to find herself there
where am i, she asked the girl lying in the grass by where she fell
the sun was bright
it was hot
but not uncomfortably so
there were houses
running parallel
more or less identical
metal frames
walls frosted plexi or fiberboard
and
where there might have been sidewalks
or street
driveways
was only a huge, undifferentiated swath of grass
in which, on which, she had fallen
where am i, she asked again
the girl who seemed to be sunbathing
you're in the skateboarder's quarter
she answered
unhelpfully
the alien girl had hoped for something
something a little more useful
geographically
the alien and the sunbather discussed the weather
as her shock began to fade
she noticed that she had skinned her arms and legs
from the impact
and the sod was turned over
so she was actually rubbing dirt into the abrasions
there was a blanket
she spread it out and lay down
grateful
nice blanket
nice grass
a big swath of cement just about here, which
come to think of it
might have made more sense for the skateboarder's quarter
would have totally sucked
whose house is that, she asked the sunbather
oh, that, she said pointing to the house
the lawn of which they would have been occupying
had, actually, there been any individuation
to the channel of green
that is jesus' house
only
before you get all excited
the sunbather didn't say jesus like gee-sus the son of man
but rather jesus like hey-zeus the guy whose house this was
and hey-zeus was, as one might have expected, some kind of skateboarder
he was kind of a big deal locally
had a sort of artist-friendly-open-door policy
so, even though hey-zeus was on his way somewhere
he welcomed the alien girl right in
like she was expected
actually
and, actually, it was the strangest thing, but
the one person
who she wanted to see more than anyone else
from any world
anywhere
was actually just hanging
at the house of hey-zeus
where she had just happened
a few moments before
to fall from the sky
and land on, well, by, next to, whatever
and there wasn't much in the way of furniture
at casa jesus
so she found herself stretching out
on this built in shelf-type-thing
that might function
as couch
or desk
or bed
and the man
did i mention it was a man, the person
the person the alien chick most wanted to see
anyway, he's a man
and
the alien chick
being an alien chick
didn't think of him as a man qua man, really
not really that much
he tended to be
the brain she loved
the eyes
the lips
the hands
the movement through space and time
connected to that particular soul
the one
who when hugged
couldn't be felt to be separate from herself
but
as she half sat half lay
propped up on an elbow
watched him approach
wet from a shower
sit on the floor next to her shelf
robe falling open
dripping pearls
she found that she was right up against
qua

in deed