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NIGHT OF FIRE & MYSTERY

by Craig Scott

Based upon the supposed last words of J.M. Barrie, Henry Ward Beecher,
Pablo Picasso, and Daniel Webster, respectively.

1.
I can’t sleep.
A house burns down
a neighborhood away.
If I could sing I would
sing a song for its ashes.

2.
I wander into the fog.
A dog whimpers.
Now comes the mystery.

3.
Drink to me,
my shadow on the wall,
what I said
in the dark.

4.
I still live
somewhere where there is
a breeze & sand,
benches & water.


Craig Scott is an unimaginative pseudonym. More work under this name appears in Tales From a French Envelope, a collaborative collection written with Catfish McDaris, available from Lulu.com.

Notes

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