4/01/2006

work in progress

My time is not your time;
these dark walls are my
veins, built by my own
steel hands, buttressed
by my unmeasured word-

spells conjured
by an injured queen
to keep the hounds
at bay.
.

3 comments:

Clifford Duffy said...
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luc u! said...

can spells

really

keep the hounds at bay?

Rachel Phillips said...

Your responses are poetry in and of themselves, clifford! Thank you!

... and luc u, that is a very good question!!