Overview of PAW DREAM MAZES

One of the poems in PAW DREAM MAZES, "A Trasher Trashed," features a kitten that was trashed and is dreaming a nightmare. This part of her dream is directly connected to her reality: The person who often trashed his cats had placed his face next to three thrashing rats, opened his mouth to scrunch his metal-like teeth, and scared the rats that were above and beneath.

All the poems in PAW DREAM MAZES have dream/reality connections, animal content, rhymes, rhythms, alliteration, and metaphors. The dreamers include animals, people, and aliens from outer space. A few poems in this book reference COVID-19 experiences.

PAW DREAM MAZES contains sonnets, two prayer poems, narrative poems with a lot of action, ten pictures, and twenty-four mazes with content from five maze poems: Mazes in Dreams, Dreams of Rescue, Cat Grammar, A Hungry Mouse in a Dream Maze, and Polydactyl Reality and Dreams.

Connections to our history are referenced in several poems: Two Mayflower Dogs, A Banished Dog, and President Abraham Lincoln's Pets. Three poems have sci-fi content: Tigurrrs of Space features multiple alien tigurrrs that all love their own space and kidnap one of Earth's tigers from a zoo. Alien Bears in Pairs has alien bears that interact with campers, police officers, a bear, and a dog. Pawsing Time and Space has aliens who visit the minds of dreaming animals and a senator on Earth.