A World Beyond Worlds
I am running through a forest of flowers.
Tiny
watery fish flicker as candle flame.
They are singing nursery rhymes.
I
hold a crystal sphere as a marble,
And flick it through the
undergrowth,
To collide with its target; the Earth, on gravel.
"It is not
real," a decorated jester whispers to me seriously.
He hands me the holy
grail and I accept.
Thousands of tiny faces melt across its golden surface
singing,
"Mary Mary, quite contrary."
The jester juggles the two lawn
balls,
Earth and moon, and holds them out to me.
He asks wryly, "How does
your garden grow?"
And I choose.