Queen Revisited Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Queen Revisited

I'm sitting
Each elbow is the base
For column
My chin sits on top of
The crown

I am thinking of Queen
Of my life

Fall's sky and sunset
So I Walk
On skin, has fine face

Too much change in Parkdale
(Old village near lake)

Men, women get older
Not Queen; town's center

In them both
Trickery, the oppressed, addiction
Shame was then; and is now

Turn pages; see numbers
On West-Queen 999
(House to poor with torture)
And 13 juxtaposed with 13
Gallery; once was jail.