Ancestor

An emotion in a dream is a citizen,
A fully rounded individual, a complex
Of longing and whatever else
At home in its flickering, odorless dark.

An emotion in a dream possesses
The dreamer—the dreamer is done to
But does not possess this emotion,
This bolus of roots as one sensory organ

Communicating its loves and distress.
An emotion in a dream is an abduction
By a visitor returning to its childhood home
Where millions of animal beings hid.