Selected Poems
Rat Night Dreams
Moonshine drips liquid courage between branches of leafless trees
Moonlight flows between the peeking fingers held up to a darkened face
Beams pass through Kentucky clear windows, stain the glass, as after thought
Church mice amble along pulled down open blinds
walk rigged wooden slat-planks and cross the window pane
amazed, like the rope bridge at Carrick-a-rede.
Acolyte mice freeze in fear, see shadows of themselves
painted on the wall, beyond the cornered black robes.
Shadows fall on the far side of virgin white sacristy.
They admire, becoming humpbacked vengeful twitchy whiskered monsters.
These shady motley jacquard jesters whip up roped tails and dream
of casting a third of the stars, out of the lying moonraker heavens.
Return as mice, to the hole in the wall, back to day to day mousy victim lives.
Moonlight flows between the peeking fingers held up to a darkened face
Beams pass through Kentucky clear windows, stain the glass, as after thought
Church mice amble along pulled down open blinds
walk rigged wooden slat-planks and cross the window pane
amazed, like the rope bridge at Carrick-a-rede.
Acolyte mice freeze in fear, see shadows of themselves
painted on the wall, beyond the cornered black robes.
Shadows fall on the far side of virgin white sacristy.
They admire, becoming humpbacked vengeful twitchy whiskered monsters.
These shady motley jacquard jesters whip up roped tails and dream
of casting a third of the stars, out of the lying moonraker heavens.
Return as mice, to the hole in the wall, back to day to day mousy victim lives.
