Gaze
Georgee Full of Grace sometimes walks
To the Blue Djinn Suleiman Lagoon at night
Just after Paul, the Second Sighted Sun sets
Into the Ice Melt sea to rest at the base of Yggdrasil, the world tree.
His Ever After Complement, Peter the Pumpkin Reader
Goes with him for he will not stay long
And because they are both considered children
The Cardinal Elders decree does not permit them to exit through the walls unaccompanied.
The Whirly Gurdy Hurdy Girdy Flying Sherriff sends Barney,
one of his teeny tiny clockwork deputies,
as a courtesy and a guard to watch over them and scan
The horizon for dangers such as the Bogey Man.
They leave Fred, their Eugenie Fox butler, to stay
With the Mickee Four in their Pumpkin Cottage
Just outside the Nutcracker Castle, off Gregor Lane,
And they walk swiftly across the Parish Green to the postern gate.
Sometimes they meet the Elder Lord Just in Time the Sunshine Sandyman
Collecting one or two grains of sand
So he can study their lattice structures and crystalline properties
And blend them into his latest blown glass plans.
Georgee knows and is well known by the solitary
Clockwork Nutcracker Guard who stands by
The Posturn Gate, and he calls him Steve,
And the Guard may or may not know or understand.
Sometimes, Georgee doesn’t stay long
And simply gazes into the night sky
To view the vast expanse of the Rama Fields
Of the Govinda Galaxy.
Sometimes, Georgee seems lost in time
And holds his arms high as though welcoming
Someone and waiting for a reply from space
And it is then that Peter calls him home.
Sometimes they walk home by the Queen Vicky
Station
And meet Chew Choo Charles the Trainman
As he returns from one of his Graviton Transport runs
And is eager to get back to the Vicarage to sleep and to dream.
Sometimes they take the long way round
By the Borough where the Eugenie Folk live
And The Great Cassie Ander Clock on the tower
Rises high above the Eugenie Hippo Mayor Gertrude’s office.
Then, they climb up the hill to make a quick
Visit to Will the Wishing Well who once
Delved too deep into the unCERN Ten Seas Mines
And now waits for the word that will give him release.
Georgee always shares a word with Will
Which he breathes deep into the well
With his own cherry fresh proto-star Entanglement
And High Sand Bird Song melody which he learned from
Nimble Phil.