Dream Neighbors

I visited their house

the neighbors

they were gone

I was bringing a spare bed

tucked in a small box

a neighborly gift

I waited at the door 

then shoveled moose shit 

around their yard 

and when the owner

arrived he was angry 

but for those dreamlike

reasons that make sense

only while alseep

concern, he voiced

my old dog might add

to the moose droppings

and I promised 

to shovel any piles

like a good neighbor 

then I realized

I had been there before

to that house

talking with neighbors 

who exist only in my dreams