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blackjack cottage by. willow kang

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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