Imagining Peter

“sometimes you sway

back into the wood”

—J. M. Barrie

“A Dedication,”

Peter Pan

Sometimes a story—

Isn’t a path leading back

To a familiar place

Sometimes one finds—

Oneself back there again

Deep in Neverland

Could I do it again—

Finding the right words

For the Lost Boys again?

My poor bloodshot eyes—

Incarnadine as Peter Pan

Makes love to me?