Shining – hour 8
Little Danny sees
a hotel and trees
his father, not nice
the typewriter like ice
to the touch.
Twins lure him to play
in a bloodied hallway
where they want him to stay
forever.
A pus-bloated woman
beckons, an omen
of the wringing to come
his neck turning plum
and yellow-ochre.
Tony, his friend
foresees the bitter end
now the boy can defend
against mom’s murder.
But there is a man
who sees spirits like Dan
and helps through like-vision
to escape the prison
of skeletal demons and sin.
“Here’s Johnny,” Jack said
his eyes bloodshot red
door splintered revealing
Mom’s terrified visage.
The spirits haunt Jack
son wanders, backtracks
in the maze, no way back
the beast is frozen.
– Sandra Johnson, 6/26/2021
(Credit: “Here’s Johnny” and characters from Stephen King’s The Shining)
