Monday, January 23, 2017

PEST CONTROL

It's afternoon in Winter,
your head down, locked
inside work and thoughts

of tomorrows, vital
minutiae sprawl like spiders
across mind's attic,

and a girl under a white
Krispy Kreme cap
of crinkled paper, her
jeans ripped in both knees,

grinning, trips you
with her foot. Laughter
bursts out of you, arachnids

scatter from your brain's tunnel
abandoning this surprised
awakening for a moment,

(or maybe forever)

as you turn
and bow
to the maiden.

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