Into Another Neighborhood Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Bellies of dungeons
Running as shallow as my tears-
She will awaken dreaming of
Another man
Across the train tracks like
A homeless unicorn taken
Shelter in a carport
On the shoulder of a canal:
She will reach out,
One hand filled with laundry,

And feed him melon rind:
And sugar cubes,
While the houses move

In bright circus over

Rebar;
And the winged serpent
Waits in tangled boughs

Of citrus blossom

Over the rabbit coop,
And the chicken coop alike,

Pledging them so many
Silly things-

As down the street some other
Woman’s children are
Kidnapped into another neighborhood.