Physick

[winterroom]

EveryAdventure wondered where my forum name came from.

Some of my poems are written with young readers in mind...

Physick

“There’s no fire in this dragon”
said the boy,
parting the rubber jaws
and peering in.

And then he remembered
a pan he’d watched
high on the stove
while his mother slept

and how flames
had leapt from nothing
into blazing spears.

And he found
the one hot thing
in his winter room.

“This dragon’s sick”
said the boy
as the skin stretched
and folded around the bulb.

But there was smoke
and the boy thought that
was better than nothing.

-
Winterroom (Hugh)

[everyadventure]

I assumed "winter room" would come from a much more solemn poem!

This reminds me of a certain little boy I know (yesterday he swiped his finger in drying cement and popped it in his mouth before I could stop him. His explanation? "It looked like birthday cake!") I love the line of reasoning here, it is so SPOT ON.