For Tara


Vampire.
Vampire.
My heart is beating like an abused child.
Vampire.
You lie sleeping,
Stoned out of your mind.
Vampire.
Bleached, beached,
Black and white on a bean bag.
Your own pool of darkness and light.
Vampire drank me dry.
My heart beats, an abused child.


March 20, 1995
© Lela Kaunitz