By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 25 October 1999

Closed for Renovation

I entered your closet
   and found myself
       lost
  in a nebulous
    new kind
    of Narnia
Nirvana via
   the Warp Zone
a hazy
  crazy
  faerie dusted
  shimmery mirage

   maybe was
   your mantra
you dangled candy carrots
    a smiling enigma
 first a good boy
    a gallant soul
giving me a hand
     to hold
and then
all at once
an elusive unicorn
your horn golden
in the sunset
misled me into 
believing
you had much magic
to offer
a vision quest
that began
with hello

     without warning
   the crunchy crystal snow
    beneath my eager feet
     transformed into
       ratty beige carpet
  and the whispering 
    majestic Douglas Firs
   were coats and disco shirts
      once again
and I was
  a sad woman
  standing inside
    a cramped
      musty
     closet