Construct Cup V 2.0

Cabbages and Kings

Prompt for 10 June, 2014

Theme: Inside the ... (any non-living thing). Tell me what happens inside those things.
Words to use: magic, junkyard.
Words to avoid: none.
Additional Parameters: None



Junkyard playground let
my imagination twist
sticky-fingered jams of odd pieces,
broken objects, discarded trash and trinkets
into far flung worlds where splintered door
morphed to alien spaceship
and wringer machine, dead
brooms, mirror shards and razor sharp
corrugated metal
gave birth to
the king of dragons.

Then, one rainy day
I slipped on a cabbage leaf
and fell down a rabbit hole.

Inside leather, vellum leaves,
pages, ink--
a plethora of words existed:
the inner, intricate workings
of a mind ...
and that mind transported me.
I delved, dove, descended deeper
inside to places I’d never known
could exist before.
Better than mere magic,
I breathed in, no,
inhaled the inner workings:
and found within …
anything was possible.
New playgrounds opened to me.
Even though some pages had been stuck together,
ink aged to transparency on others, and
to my dismay,
the entire last chapter ripped away,
that's when the magic became real.
The junque scattered
in the cob-webbed nooks of my mind,
the odd phrases lying about
to trip the unwary thought,
the disconnected flotsam and jetsam
of a sea of possibilities
became the bits and
pieces of new worlds,
worlds that I controlled or
(that controlled me)
inside the pages of what
would, one day,
become a book.