Werewolves
Today I am suddenly
scared of werewolves
and I have never been scared
before of werewolves,
so this is a new fear and I am
sad as I am sad
of a new love
or an old love that is not now a love.
I was always scared
of ghosts especially and occasionally
big dogs,
so this is like I guess
being scared of the
same old things but all at once,
like seeing two old lovers together
suddenly embrace
on the street then turn toward
you
werewolves whose bodies you remember
Today I am suddenly
scared of werewolves
and I have never been scared
before of werewolves,
so this is a new fear and I am
sad as I am sad
of a new love
or an old love that is not now a love.
I was always scared
of ghosts especially and occasionally
big dogs,
so this is like I guess
being scared of the
same old things but all at once,
like seeing two old lovers together
suddenly embrace
on the street then turn toward
you
werewolves whose bodies you remember
Tara Blaine
copyright 2006 Fear Knocks
Tara Blaine is a writer of poetry and prose, as well as the publisher and editor of The American Drivel Review, a quarterly that seeks to revolutionize the role of humor in literary and popular culture. Her writing has recently appeared in Ellipsis: Literary Serials and Narrative Culture, The Stolen Purse, Hayloft, Sliding Uteri, and an anthology, Poems from Penny Lane (McMillin & Parrish/farfalla, 2005). Tara also writes screenplays, essays, and, when she's desperate, greeting cards.
