Washington is a fairytale cottage by day,
a gambling house by night
The children pick psychedelic mushrooms on the prairie
Molly’s the name of their fairy Godmother
and Leonard Siffleet plays the village madman
skeletal, beheaded, killing in soft hands
Churchill plays blackjack with the emperors,
chips falling like bombs. After the bells sing their requiem
its Woodstock in the inhabitants’ minds, in Leonard’s Aitape,
bumbling dwarves soothing the resentful ghosts of the gone game.
Written by. Willow Kang
Painting by. Claude Monet (The Japanese Bridge, 1900)
Willow (she/her) is a writer from Southeast Asia. She loves history, storytelling, and all things dreamy.
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