A family life amphibian looks on

Salacious, your eyes in the stream

Under piles of books I’m led to believe

Saboteur

Oh, you

a quarrel broke out

of frosty toothpaste mouths

a boy must defer his prowess to a strong walker

Queen Darling’s immediate needs necessitate

the use of force

and no, thank you, for quick spit finish

after she ejected him from the bathroom

If salamander toes climbed neatly up a French door, clean glass

but never reached the top

it’s unfinished

that  you’ve forgotten something so important

and the meaning hinges

on it

To have lost my mind is only a border town

I imagined the salamander would tell me

the story of my life

Philip reads and Julie sings and Charlotte Oh Empress

is quiet downstairs