ABSTRACT
The imagination gets defined as “the formation of a mental image of something that is neither perceived as real nor present to the senses.” Furthermore, the American Heritage Dictionary tells us that the imagination has the ability to “confront and deal with reality using the creative powers of the mind.” The implication is that the imagination is capable of rolling up its sleeves and working off the cuff; that it’s there to help, no matter how unusual the situation. I thought I would be a natural, that I’d be just a hammock and a butterfly away from lucidity and insight. I rolled my eyes inward to observe the clever elves as they cobbled together a work of genius but found instead a rat king, a mare’s nest, a sketchpad of harebrained doodles, eels escaping through the grass.
