Terror

Terror is a member of our household,
nothing helps it just as it helps nothing,
it joins us for breakfast as at dinner
it lurks in shadow cast by sun or moon

to name it is to have half a clamshell
to dip in its tremble and pour it out,
a tiny vessel, new capacity,
miniscule rescue of our agency

terror freezes, so seems eternity,
we walk and work as ha…