Published in Doppelgänger
In nightmares I am alive Such a terrible fragility I can’t remember now How I stood that pain— How sweet was your rescue
I denied the clock stopped ticking… I denied the coldness grew. I denied the floorboards creaking. I denied the ghost of you. I placed no hope in spirit writing
Knitting sitting where the necklaces fall gathering up the shiny things to g… who bite them hoping for sugar
Leopard Leopard come for me You’re the brightest thing I see Nothing fazes me at all Though it reaches from the wall My eyes are closed, I’m waiting h…
My bed is like a little brig; Nurse locks me in at night; Wraps me around in itchy wool And takes away the light. The night’s an inky scary blot
With what wonder did I behold the… Alone outdoors and sleeping in a b… Far from the town. Deep in the fo… with other refuse in a nest of roc… and kept from crawling forth by se…
It’s a lovely gloomy day. Come, my dear, come out and play. The shadows gather on the lawn And whisper that the sun is gone And never will come back.
Vapor things crawl out of sight Shadowed shapes loose in the night When company comes I don’t see th… A crash and a laugh and I know wh… They don’t put on the lights or si…
They think I whisper secrets to m… Another drooling booby on the dole… Another dirty, crazy, lonely soul. I am content to let them think lik… This disguise is wise. So says my…
Two roads diverged in a horrid woo… and sorry I was to be there at all… Two roads, night fallen, there I… (would it have been thus if I’d be… under a thunder clouded pall.
No sooner has the sun gone down When I awake and go to town. Since vampires bit me where I lay I have to go to bed by day. I wander round while others sleep.
They think I wrestle demons in th… They think I’m stirring frogs int… They’ve never seen us picnic in th… They’d never believe I made it fi… I brought the milk and cake, it di…
Everyone thinks that I have gone… They also keep their distance from… They say that love has paralyzed m… Nonsense. I knew he left to meet… I saw his death in battle in a dre…
At night time when the lights are… I cough a fearsome-sounding cough. If no one comes to check my health I climb upon the roof by stealth. I slide straight down the nearest…
Does your mom make you sit in a sw… She hurls it toward Timbuktu? Oh, I do think that’s the awfulle… Ever a mom can do! Splinters below and sunburn above,
