Power Cut

POWER CUT close my eyes...open them a cheetah advances across the living room a bear at the top of a stair comes alive in a lightning flash flicker of candlelight a fox stole watches us with beady little eyes his dead dog faithfully preserved forever by his side a python stuffed in coils before the open fire a tiger sleeping the sleep of the dead silently growls and snores an elephant's foot jealously guarding a flock of umbrellas moon shines on a loon trapped under a bell jar crow caught in the act of flying off the taxidermist smiles taxidermist also a ventriloquist lends his voice to the dead the animals talk amongst themselves Monty Python meets The Twilight Zone out on the summer lawn the storm pretends it's the Big Bad Wolf his daughter's forgotten dolls drink acid rain from tiny broken china cups the doll's eyes open & close openclose