U.S. INTERVENTION IN WONDERLAND

Take 1973 beyond apparition

I touch memory
Funny its
Still sticky to the tips
Like napalm

The door creaks open
Feels like it
May even crumble

The game within was hide 'n seek
Years ago -

Children scurry across a waxed floor
Someone speaks into a microphone
Announces a birthday boy
Joy by the July window
Banquet tables rigged with ice cream
Melting; suddenly

The TV in the corner relays images of My Lai

The Mad Hatter and
White Rabbit lead us
To wonderland

Where traces of ivy and cotoneaster grow
In the road
Ready to be burnt

Then harvested?


County Durham - May 2004