the other side of midnight

“Have you ever had a nervous breakdown?”

what share of the blame was hers ?
she would not look back.

careful directions
found
The house
as impregnable as a fortress.
“Come and see,” she said

but nothing
moved
her

She
lay there, bewildered,
she
remembered

The outside
is a palace,
the inside is a museum.

S he was too nervous to be angry.

desperately
lost.

“I’m willing,”
S he
said.
“I am a different girl.”

The truth was
There had been no word
only a deep, foreboding silence.

How would
S he
be satisfied

One slight mistake
shut out everything

It was a ghostly enemy,
an impossible destination

She could feel the ground rushing up to meet

h e r

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