- Challenging Situation No. 3:The Rolling Skull
Having fashionedwhat you could not acceptof your self and your parentsinto a figure your own size,you call it "enemy"and in a great struggleduring which you proveto the world and to your loveryour purity of heart,your courage and strengthyou behead this new manbut the headbecomes a grinning skullrolling after you in the dust,follows you into your tentwhen you try to restor to lie near your lover,grows wings, a great tailand slithers or fliesafter you through mud,water and sky, laughingat you as if [End Page 69]
it knew you betterthan anyone elsein the world.
what do you do? [End Page 70]
Footnotes
This poem originally appeared in Red Cedar Review, Vol. 11 Iss. 2, 1977.