Blue Moon

48) Mind

Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin,

reminiscences of tales of childhood,

and slowly wasting away in our forgetful stupors

dripping off the windowsills of my mind's mansion

I am a ruler, I am a dragon of dreamers

I am queen, empress, lady of my mansion

forget-me-not children (procrastinators who were ever

waiting for a revolution which they were too lazy to begin in the beginning)

My sleepy ghost sister: shadows me, echoes me, heart

beats battering my temples. Soft little sleepy ghost sister

drags her feet, droops her eyes. And yawns an empty mouth

delicate thing. She walks through the empty rooms of

the mansion I dreamt up (she likes the pillow room best).

Half-hearted resolutions, sting, electrocutions on the fencing

and barbed wire ripping clothes and skin,

my mind fidgets restlessly within my body, I'm just tired.

(5th January 2014)