October Leaf 93 Poems by Teen/Young Adult Author Jean-Thomas Cullen at Galley City

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90. NIGHT INTROSPECT

          (Sue)
          at 3 a.m.
          one thinks the strangest things

in 12 hours I will be
sucked into the sky shot over
a cloud dragged through the hills
dropped in New Haven

I am fearful of this new forest
I don’t want to look too deep
for fear of the face, the eyes, looking back

tonight I saw the pond
and looked past the glitters
at the sunken worlds
bittenoff ends of mourning dragwillows

I will not go to your castle
because there am I
and because I fear your dungeons
chain and pounding weary mallets

          bottle of blood
          I have prickled my hand
          on a foreboding thorn

oh forest
if you knew

the things I have seen the cities I have stood and wept in
the transdimensional highways I have hitched

run through by fast cars
and barreling truck monsters

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