THE NICK OF TIME
Romulus and Remus together, they both
enter this space. I'm studying a new History,
one in which whatever I visualize comes to life.
Genghis Khan, meet Cassius Clay and Madame
Curie. Yes, I had some problems in Nagasaki.
-
My cards are on the table - I don't know what
they mean, the knave and the king, a joker and
a queen. Every level of humankind, I'm told,
is supposed to be represented. Then the cards,
they turn to ashes and I'm left holding nothing
at all. Another deck is brought out by the housegirl :
quite different, this deck - hangman and death,
hangman and death, all I ever get.
-
She mutters about her father being an alchemist
of some renown. I ask for tea, she gives me mercury.
No comments:
Post a Comment