Anticipation

Prospect's rivulets flow through cranial landscape,
phantom paramours of fairy god mother sway
imagined waiting in the cool rush
swimming its mercurial possibilities
feigned surety's waders left in denial's closet.

Sound of inner, "shhhh,"
dangles
from denial's seductive hook
as bated rationale for numbing intuitive paranoia.

Interlude of mystical speculation
dialogues against cryptic mental analogue
that dredges up cynic recollections
of trust's assassins.

Reaching river's edge of expectation's stream,
reality's stalker greats with reaper's sickle,
reverie corpse floats in aftermath visionary blood letting,
pic nic hiatus taken shopping at discount fancy's snack shop
purchase of formaldehyde optimism appetizers best seller.