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Inner Sanctum
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Inner Sanctum

in a hole in the wall where a small door would go
hung a single blanket, a curtain against light
capturing dark; probed by a sturdy lens powered
from a sleeve of c-cell batteries and determined aim.

muffled noises could not penetrate the lair where
the accumulator absorbed frequent fantasy of
comic villains flailing, failing destruction of
steel-willed heroes, brightly painted, flying.

popcorn vigilantes and candy wrapper truants
littered a fascinating theatre, a void the warden allowed
as the outer-world crashed, collided like ink on matte.
barred blue eyes seldom sought a framed horizon shining.

divided from sneer of summer boys working mocking tongues
like dark-hood rogues, hopeful balls that could sail with aim
would not find his head. in that crawl space, the rap-rap-rap
echoes followed by his murmured name no longer came.

hollow youth inhabited a 2x4, plaster-wrapped void
of non-conformity, five decades long. Infinite
as expanding light, a shadowed man hides the child,
brief in sanctity. firm to his hardwood, a life in negation.


5.31.20
4th draft submitted --


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ISOLATION 
taboo words:
lonely
alone
isolate
boredom
friends
or any derivatives of these words
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