POEM - DREAMING OF ILLEGAL ELDERBERRIES

Gather illegal elderberries.

Step through the misty frame

Into the new land

Where black pearls grow

That you must not touch.


The long toothed tiger leaps

To defend the tumid fruit

Roaring his warning

And you can’t move;

Your legs are jelly.


Fly up until you soar

Above the map of London.

Hold up by virtue of your will

And feel the power,

Then fall until you wake.