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The hall hushed, until some sticky child
Trilled, "I don't see it!"
And mommy pointing and soto voce
Saying, "There it is, in the back.
See? It's staring at you."
And the child staring back,
Transfixed, unvoiced,
Thrall to those two cold fires.
Then they vanished,
And the case was empty again.
Adam Sass is a co-editor of Caveat Lector and director of
print production. He is author of Seven Beasts and Inscape
as well as the novel The Hive.
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