Music
Box
Clifford
K. Watkins, Jr.
we
exist in some fleeting spinster's dream
as
she twirls in a music box
listening
for secrets
swimming
in our tears
she
brings the melody that summons our fear
she
sits in darkness
spinning
fortuitous realms of bliss
and
when she awakes
we
vanish into nothingness
***
Clifford
K. Watkins, Jr., is a writer/poet/lyricist/rapper originally
from High Point, North Carolina. Some of his publishing credits
include: Underground Window, Endzville, Infinite
Glass, Prism Quarterly, Cynic Magazine, Seeker
Magazine, Oracular Tree, Poetic Voices, Ygdrasil,
Poetry Stop, Zygote In My Coffee, Wildchild Publishing,
Forever Underground Magazine, Muscadine Lines, Poet's
Haven, Lit Vision, Interpoetry, Canopic Jar,
Winamop, Long Story Short, TM Poetry, The
Toe Tree Journal, The Persistent Mirage, A Darker
Vision, Emptiness Spills, Red Fez, Words
Words Words, Vain Glory, The Voyager, Tears
For Eternity, and Green Brier Review.
A
Painter's Ghost is Clifford's first novella: a nonstop psychological
thriller told from a drifter's unique perspective--a four-pane
window. Purchase
at www.lulu.com/hollowofmockery1070.
©
Clifford K. Watkins, Jr.