Published in Star*Line
I asked my love to hold my hand. My love was not afraid. I heard the steady pattering sound His stoutly true heart made. I gave my love a gentle kiss.
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…
I have a little demon who goes in… And how he came to be so cruel is… He is wrinkled, blue and stinky fr… And I see him try to trip me, whe… The weirdest thing about him is th…
A bat with wingspread wide and bla… Hopped upon the sleeper’s back, Sucked the sleeper’s blood and sai… “You look quite pale. Best stay i…
Landlord, said I, there are bats… Landlord, said I, I confess that… You’re a good caretaker, neither s… I’d be much obliged for a fence to… An electrified fence would be nice…
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…
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
A predator in tie and tails The sea of matrimony sails But sails Alone. When asked where is your better ha…
It seems I am a most unwelcome gu… I know that since I came you’ve b… Come, tell me what you do when hap… What music do you play, what drugs… Oh yes, I know, though you are se…
lift the lid and the music plays a crinkling tinkling kind of a tun… and you hum along and it’s kind of… to picture Victorian brides and gr… drop the lid and it doesn’t close
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…
In nightmares I am alive Such a terrible fragility I can’t remember now How I stood that pain— How sweet was your rescue
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…
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…
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…
