The fleet-footed black bear
dancing on the beach
with the love of your life
is a showstopping
dream song.

Breakfast with the gods
with Zeus offering
a French fry
is a tasty
invisible stanza.

Repeated
beheadings
and coronations
of kings and queens
play well
as a sestina.

The chariot races,
fire-eating witches,
chimpanzee street gangs
are merely scaffolding
for the story
sleeping here,
if only
you can awake
to tell it.