I Make my Magic

Published in Houdini (2002)

 I make my magic
 Of forgotten things
 Night and nightmare and the midnight wings
 Of childhood butterflies—
 And the darkness, the straining dark
 Underwater and under sleep—
 Night and a heartbreak try to keep
 Myself, until before my eyes
 The morning sunlight pours
 And I am clear of all the chains
 And the magic now that rains
 Down around me is
 A sunlight magic,
 I come to a sunlight magic,
 Yours.