1) talking through a wall made of
a sheet of copper indenting words
backwards to each other bending
holes finishing each others' words
from the other side competing like
battleship.
2) sk8ing on a tract like Google St.
Saint View arrows along light gray
pavement over black telephone
wires and trolly track rails shining
and cars in the way.
3) leaning my head through a win
dow in your cotton candy spider
egg sack chamber snowy white
and lupin blue like sticking your
head into a Fisher Price play house
you curled up in there working on
something small not interested in
my head at your shoulder.
4) in a boarding school formerly a
castle with animal horns for all
the doorknobs and marble floors
a big staircase leading up to a
central circular platform balcony
enclosure where chickens were
supposedly kept in medieval times
tapping my cane on the floor to
imagine what the chickens' peck
ing would have sounded like on
the marble "OH, HOW FUN!!!"
5) "oh you're so nice. you're
doing so well. really so well."
dread lock headdress nose ring
man and thin blonde hair upturn
nosegirl carpeted mansion with
levels rooms of different heights
sunken risen rooms steps pink al
coves swimming pool turquoise
fountains edges of rooms not qui
te meeting what do they call that
pre fabricated building middle
school love interests sit next to me
underwater in the fountain "you're
doing so well. oh you're so nice."
