Twitch
(or On Being Cuckoo in the Coconut)

by Karen M. Raymond-Hart

twitch who's what's that

buzz, gossip, hint, hiss, insinuate, mumble, mutter
about me

they
abhor, disdain, scorn, sneer, spurn
me

mind pictures spin away

reality not

an ethereal
something wicked this way comes

dread, fright, horror, panic, terror
in the corner of my eye

the THINGS
sizzle, fizzle, drizzle, hiss
through the cracks
in my awareness

its nothing, I'm sure
nervous giggle

sibilate, sigh, speak, susurrate

twitch

9/5/2003