1 Better to collect miniature trolls beside toy bridges and arrange them on doilies. Best we commemorate old fears until our heads are full lest we trump up some flesh and blood devil.
2 Someone’s been walking on your grave. You have seen yourself unexpectedly in a mirrored door. (though some have claimed it’s pleasant to leave your body then return) Now you return his gaze.
Rae ArmantroutRae Armantrout is a professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of several books of poetry, most recently Money Shot (2011) and Versed (2009), winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Photo credit: AP Photo/Denis Poroy