Maude Larke

Wizardry

I am an excitable dreamer

so much like

an antelope

leaping through visions

like tall jungle grass

with eyes and heart

wide open

I am a child

who wants all her dreams

to come true

I want magic

and wonders

and secret doors

to everywhere

but I am a grown child

who has to know

that reality

is not so obliging

that jungle grass

has limits

and razor edges

and tangles underfoot

and that dreams

must be stirred

like a pudding

I am an excitable child

who really wants her dreams

but reality

does no favors

until I create it