Box to outfox 
hardening knocks

with color of velvet 
white purple black or red.

For logic 
of vampires 

whose bite at neck
stung and bled.

Arose and fled 
paddling 

and stuffed,  
miracle and sleet.

Kingdom for a shore
never and forever

fossicking 
for more.

Chairs dangling 
in the dead of air

lantern hanging
like a prayer

blood lines pulling 
at roots of hair.