Midnight visions
Reason fell
she
had found
too much
except for the book's cries
reason fell
towards the poem and the poem
was a bad sign
She
drank the sherry
rested
the words
assembling
her dominoes
the kids
were away
the
door opened
to anarchy
wood sparkled under marble
The 2River View, 3_4 (Summer 1999)