Napowrimo 2018

Kerry O'Connor's Prompt @ Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

 Day 23

Theseus:

 Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
 Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
 Are of imagination all compact.

Midsummer Night's Dream Act 5, scene 1, 4 - 8



an ordinary poet
a lunatic and lover
shaping a shopping fantasy

inhaling coffee clouds at breakfast
seeing shipwrecks
sugar cube drama floating
in a morning tea cup





finding enlightenment in puddles
wandering through the bromeliads
at the hardware store
listening to  the screeching and squawking
of the non existent cockatoos and macaws



her brain conjuring up
bright green rousseau landscapes
in the avocado and pineapple section
of the supermarket


cool reason eluded her
even in the freezer section
seething with love for chocolate 
overwhelming and dangerous



delectable madness