One of the poems in PAW DREAM MAZES, A Trasher Trashed, has 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 did trash 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 has 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 has 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.