flicked switch: nightlight
scatters soft orange elephant tusks
on the walls. mrs darling cries
and fills her three daughters
with remorse for the granite roses on the wall —my throat is sore
as i squeeze her hand: the nails
are tender for they might fall off soon,
and i sense death
in a numb daydream of a window
opened — hers, mine, perhaps ours in a nimbus(22/12/2017)
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Have you seen the Lost Boys?
Poesiaharking back to an earlier poem of mine: poor wendy -- all the heroines get left behind. but she was a darling after all. yes, i very much have tears in my eyes. and it shall be hard to see, and sometimes i won't want to, but i will go on looking an...