[lit-ideas] Pulling hats out of rabbits...

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:59:13 -0500

Anyone recognize this poem? My brother (dead for ten years) sent this to me once without attribution. I assumed carelessness on his part. Can't ask him now.


PULLING HATS OUT OF RABBITS

Invading center stage
I strip the magician of all artifice
I expose his hidden cards, his pigeons
his silken handkerchiefs
I dismantle his white tie
his collapsible hats

I unscrew his hands and throw
them to the audience
I climb deep into his sleeve
for glasses of water and fiery wands
reach far into his legs
for rabbits and ropes
eggs and coffins
I strip him to teeth and bone

Now they're all yours, he smiles
It is his finest trick

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