Josette's music box theme really bothered me. I thought it was randomly inserted, probably because it had been popular. I took that as an indication that all rules and sanity were now out the window.
I disagree. It was Maggie who first heard Josette's music box in the dream, and her subconscious (which might be more conscious during a dream) would have told her that this sweet little tune was a harbinger of horror.
I disagree too. I was saying that I thought that at first, and changed my mind.
It turned out that the poem was talking about Barnabas, specifically the "point of return" part, so then I looked back, and the Dream bits that made no sense to me could be made sense of, if they were about Barnabas. I don't really know, though.