Fairground Attraction

 Source Material Pexels.com

Back when I worked
at the fairground
I was quite the attraction:
‘The Golden Girl’,
an exotic display
in a side-booth
for a pretty penny
or a gaudy trinket
and a drink after-hours –
until Luke, one-handed
magician, got his
vanishing act right
one night in hot July –
Now I am far less
silver than stars.


Playing catch-up this week:

Susie's Bits of Inspiration for the B&W photography challenge - I added silver and gold.
Marian's Just One Word: Trinket
Friday 55... Just because...

The Substance

All day I’ve built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it.
Anne Sexton

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The house is empty
falling to ruin quietly
shutters parting from their hinges
paint unpeeling and tiny jaws
chewing the basement wood.
A silent cat seeks shelter
from the cold wind
and curls in a dank corner.
This is the decay
of a lifetime founded
on the substance of dreams.
Threadbare as the bedsheets
pegged out on the washline,
I wonder if the night will bring rain.


Day 28 ~ SUBSTANCE

Margaret is our host in The Imaginary Garden today, inviting us to reimagine photographic images.