duck into the hole
crawl down the winding
luminous tunnel
polished by other crawlers
here is a silent world
that does not exist in summer
a child-devised warren
in a mound in plain sight
here a niche
where Jackie stowed his snowballs
for a rainy day
he laughed
here a twisting sub-tunnel
down into dark
Donald’s basement
pass quickly
emerge finally onto
sunlight
the dazzling battlements
ready to defy all
About riverwriter
Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else?
wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/
Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.
