by Kevin Densley
Luminous,
with a guttural roar,
the creature leapt from the dark.
My heart almost jumped from my throat.
But a kid at the back of the Ghost Train,
in the carriage behind mine,
attacked the humanoid being
with (upon a closer look)
suspicious rubbery skin.
There was a struggle.
During the fracas,
the monster guy ripped in half
a brown paper bag
belonging to the kid.
Soon the ride ended.
‘I’ve lost my lunch!’
the kid exclaimed
as we emerged into daylight.
He held the torn-off top of his bag.
But he wasn’t unhappy;
in fact, he was grinning
— he’d grappled with a monster,
and emerged unbowed,
undefeated
Kevin Densley is an Australian writer. His poetry has appeared in Australian, English and American journals. Densley’s latest poetry collection, his third, Orpheus in the Undershirt, was published by Ginninderra Press (Port Adelaide, South Australia) in early 2018. On Twitter @DensleyKevin.
