and now it's a comic book
from the 50s
more of an annual
not a weekly or monthly
its frames map out the adventure
enough to last a lifetime
as good a way
as any you could suggest
paper & ink
hard covers
but you fold
betrayed by those
you allow to betray you
they're always the worst
guiltless, self-composed
they want more and more
any way they can think of
but it's all in the book
you thought was fiction
~ ~ ~
Badgroin the Troll
grudges through the forest
with his axe –
knocking
lousewort
cotton grass
bogbean, gorse, dodder
heather
butcher's broom
anemone, sorrel, iris
orchid, sundew
bluebell, myrtle
foxglove, gentian
primrose, gladiolus
celandine
asphodel