The Sand Hill Review          http://www.sandhillreview.org       2001 November

 

Has this happened to you?

 

You’re walking through a room at night,

 

barely able to see, when suddenly
something looms up in front of you, something

 

black and big.  You stop, cringe,
and look again: it’s just

 

an open doorway to a darker room.

 

Jim Standish