NaPM April 5 2015

[milo]

Fifty Shades of Grey Mice

--Three blind mice. Three bind mice.

She wanted to be the only voice
in the universe to divide
dark from light, like God.
In the beginning, she used bats,
but found they saw
better without eyes.
We were blindfolded as we ran
through the hedgerow maze
past roses blooming in perpetual night;
beauty painted with a thorn's brush
against our skin. There was no red
word hovering over the waters
that we might speak to stop
the descent of the knife.

This will be another one of my favourites from this year.  Your time off has done you well.  The metaphor instantly rewrites the original without ruining it.

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Arachnophobia


Miss Muffet feels the spiders move inside her,
they crawl around her bowl of curds and whey.
Their shadows move as lamplight fails to hide her -
Miss Muffet feels the spiders move.  Inside her
dress or crawling up her arms they bite her
or lay their eggs inside her creme brulee.
Miss Muffet feels the spiders move inside her.
They crawl.  She throws her bowl of curds away.