Three Dreams of the World's Creation

This book of poetry is more like a novella or three closely related short stories. The first part is entitled: 'The First Dream: a humble scribe's tale of an ancient god'. The humble scribe, a loquacious and irreverent type tells the story and also makes illuminating observations. Man and Woman are called forth, at the beginning of time, by an ancient god who has his own selfish needs to be worshipped, lusts after woman and eventually schemes to kill man in a fit of sexual jealousy. This story has many love poems in praise of woman. The second part is: 'The Second Dream: guarionex song of destiny.' The narrator is a fellow clan member of guarionex, and Taino indian chief, who lived at the time when Columbus first made landfall in the Caribbean. The story tells of guarionex' birth, brought to shore by a leviathan, his blossoming into maturity and chiefdom, his creating a universe of meaning for the tribe and the fateful meeting with the first Europeans. There are poems of love, time, and destiny. The third dream is: 'Maria dreams of guarionex'. Maria, a Latina beauty of today from the Upper West Side by Central Park, is guided by the spirit of guarionex to the place of his ancient home. On the way, she meets 3 angels that try to sway her from his side by offering power, love, and destiny. There are many poems of love, power, destiny