Danger

My wife raises children in a house
Full of knives and fire.
Electricity slithers through the walls.
Outside, stars fall like trees.

I warn her about this,
But she does not hear me.

She is throwing our children at the moon
And they are laughing
The sound of a thousand fullspeed suns
Crashing into the sky.

Samuel Dickison

Samuel Dickison

Samuel Dickison teaches 5th graders in Kailua, HI. He lives with his wife, Harriette, and their son, Forrest.