Box to outfox? 
hardening knocks

with a color of velvet 
white purple black or red.

For mischiefs 
and logic of vampires 

whose bite at the neck
stung and bled.

Arose and fled 
with flying water dragons 

that melted to a pox
my liberal heterodox

paddling and stuffed,  
miracle and sleet.

A kingdom for a shore
fossicking for more

chairs dangling 
in the dead of air

and a lantern hanging
forevermore --

its blood lines banging
at the door.