04-27-2015, 07:28 PM
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< princess >
across the street
an old man is building her a castle
of concrete and cinderblock
(and most anything else)
the plastic mannequins in the windows
gaze at fiberglass horses
who graze on gravel pastures
at night
(when the Smiths and the Davidsons can't see her)
she leaves things in his yard
and he adds them to her castle
her dad's old fan
is a windmill
a broken mirror
makes the walls spark with sun
a rusted washtub
is now a pond for plastic ducks
across the street
an old man is building her a castle
- - -
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions

