Dead Pan
by Gary William Crawford
You looked at me strangely:
a dead pan for a dead man.
As the days passed in the shadow city:
another look from one of your friends
that reflected your look.
Then a few days later:
another look from another
of your friends
that mirrored the previous one.
Yet another look from another friend
that mirrored the first.
Then one night:
a look from another
of your friends
through my bedroom window.
Why is it that there are
some changes in my body,
terrible changes,
as I look in my bedroom mirror
and see you staring back?
© 2004 Gary William Crawford
Gary Crawford is the author of two books of poetry, Poems
of the Divided Self and In Shadow Lands,
and the short story collection Gothic Fevers. I
have published works of literary scholarship and criticism, such as Ramsey
Campbell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A Bio-Bibliography, and Robert
Aickman: An Introduction. He is also the founder and editor
of Gothic Press (http://www.gothicpress.com/.)
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