COMIC EPIPHANY <br />(for Scarlett) <br /> <br />I found Superman <br />living in Cork <br /> <br />stashed away <br />in my Uncle Paddy's garage <br /> <br />the new guy <br />pumping the pumps <br /> <br />had them flown in <br />by his Uncle Owen <br /> <br />their very existence <br /> <br />a miracle <br />in themselves <br /> <br />buried treasure <br />trove <br /> <br />this stolen read <br />in the dark <br /> <br />gripped in the only <br />shaft of sunlight <br /> <br />daring to enter <br />the depths <br /> <br />dust motes dancing <br />as if the atoms of the world <br /> <br />had come <br />un- loosed. <br /> <br />Comics...good as gold <br />to the child's mind <br /> <br />like Lord Carnarvon <br />& Howard Carter <br /> <br />unearthing Tutankamun.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/comic-epiphany-for-scarlett/
