CLOSING DOWN THE CIRCUS
I close down tonight’s circus.
It is not a success.
The players are weary
and the animals have run away.
The hero has become the antagonist;
the heroine, a clown.
Storms have torn the tent
and the roof leeks.
It is time for the circus to move on.
I have no idea where it will go.
I just know it’s over for now.
I turn my back
on the broken violin,
the fallen trapeze,
the humiliation.
And gazing up at an overcast sky,
I remember to disengage
from the phenonema.
2011
Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
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