cloybox (redux)
if i had a china doll
with face of chartreuse pale,
would you be surprised at all
if it began to wail?
she may shriek the truth at you
and project lies you've told,
thoughts that no one ever knew--
from newest to the old.
she might even point at you
with ashen china hand,
listing with a grin or two
which fear she will befriend.
if this little china doll
with lace of crumbling fray,
were to crawl across to you
would you not run away?
anne-marie fogh 99/02
memoreverb
I remember looking up into
the branches
watching them sway a bit
in the breeze
and hearing a mourning dove
sing its sad song
Don't you?
I remember anciently rusted
and corroded debris
strewn about where we sat
or where we stood
something that's at least
50 years older than us
Do you?
I remembered feeling lost
but this is home
we were only a couple minutes
away from my house
it was like you'd kidnapped me
into your own realm
Didn't you?
I remembered wishing that i
had ne