Dancing in His Dreams
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She found John sleeping with Matilda on his breath.
That witch has twitched him, surely she will be his death.
He is so callow, weak as water-swollen dams,
and he will break to mortar if her winter slams
his damaged dykes. Matilda dances in his dreams
tonight; her tripping steps erode his brain. Her schemes
will snatch him, switch John's fallow mind again while he
is sleeping, sleeping like she'll never set him free.
Karen Tellefsen
kat2@mindspring.com