New Amusement Park

New Amusement Park
© Surazeus
2024 11 03

Atomic clocks in the bottoms of wells 
measure music demonic fiddlers play 
while tree elves compose healing recipes 
on flower-petal pages in glass books 
while I sleep in enchanted fairyland, 
clutching keys to my ruined castle tower. 

Converting butterflies to motor car, 
lit with magic lamp of marvelous charms, 
I drive long highway of stamped postage stamps 
on endless crazy journey through the world 
to map four corners of our pear-shaped globe, 
then sell happiness in the empty church. 

Beneath the rowan tree of lonely faith 
one-eyed Cailleach holds in calf-skin hands 
her heartless body throbbing with rainstorms 
to cast cold winter winds of suffering 
with cackling laughter at frail humankind 
who locks the clanking gates of paradise. 

Ambling through elm trees in city park, 
where tower-dwellers go to find the light 
that shimmers bright at center of the world, 
I drop bread crumbs along the Trail of Tears 
to guide wild gang of refugees from war 
through maze of myths to new amusement park. 

I wander maze of glittery clothing stores 
in continent-sprawling city of ghosts, 
who buy useless gifts for the holiday, 
hoping to map my journey through the world, 
but key to happiness is somewhere else 
so I keep walking Road of Everywhere. 

Silent winter light on floor of gray stone 
reveals secret face of the cosmic herald 
who holds high Lamp of Freedom with one hand 
and points to Land of Sorrow with the other, 
yet no one goes anywhere while he sings 
heart-aching melodies of sacred psalms. 

Demonic fiddler with the broken clock, 
he inserts in trunk of the rowan tree, 
asks Cailleach if she will marry him, 
so she bakes apple pies with cinnamon 
for wild children in the Garden of Eden 
who dance around lost stone of Sisyphus. 

Cracked screen of the television contains 
aggressive heartbeat of courageous fear 
when Cailleach fights the cruel castle king 
and frees the Holy Land from tyranny 
so we gather on the Pyramid of Eyes 
and sing in the rain that cleanses our hearts.