~
It should be stark
and unprovoked,
yet fight to conceal.
It should justify
its intrusion
by layering
new narratives:
each a wonderland,
each a poison.
It should spring
like a cat,
cloud like doubt,
evaporate like
cigarettes at dawn.
It should backlight
truth, fictionalize
history.
It should undo
reality, drift into abyss
with the Lady of Shalott.
It should lead
the march into the sea,
it should die gracefully.
~