"Daisy"

hard malice,
secret extravaganza;

Daisy
the first “nice” girl,
with
barbed wire between
excitingly desirable
and ripe mystery

romances that were laid away already;
dances;
shining flowers withered;

the shades and echoes still vibrant

colossal accident,
glorious future,
a man without a past might slip,
ravenously, unscrupulously

He despised himself;
phantom security,
no comfortable family,
impersonal blown about
didn’t turn out as intended

he committed to following a grail;
Daisy was extraordinary

She vanished, leaving nothing