Shipwrecked Courage

Dissociation is mistress of masks
Of make believe, of appearance that hides
Disappearance, of such legerdemain
As returns each white rabbit to its hat

Fear, great dissembler, great disassembler,
Invents beyond the mere mechanical
Creates a poetry of disaster
Inwards before entry to trance of words

There’s music of rapture and of capture
That plays the musculature of the face
In subtle ripples outside of hold of will
In which can be discerned tell against spell

At the edge of sleeve a hand beseeches
From the far shore of a shipwrecked courage