Miro's Nightmare - Haggard and Halloo

Published January, 2007
Haggard and Halloo

Miro's Nightmare at Haggard and Halloo

Miro's Nightmare
by Alison Ross

Miro’s Nightmare is coming to get you.

It crawls into your mouth
to lay eggs
that hatch into dreams
of murderous blue.

Miro’s Nightmare bleeds cats onto your eyes
and whispers fangs into your ears.

Miro’s Nighmare is an upside-down clock
and an inside-out heart.

It is in love with death
the scent of blood-streaked mirrors,
and with the color yellow
when it used to be black.

Miro’s Nightmare is coming to get you.

It lays clocks inside your heart:
they hatch into cats
with upside-down eyes.