Gargoyle 3
cover drawing by Roy P. Comiskey
publication date 10/1/1976

LEFT BEHIND

Desmond O'Brien

Some child left his imagination
on the curb
and went inside to sleep

me?

I walked my old slow walk
and wondered
who left the rusty bent can
all full of sticks and leaves
and shining stones
so close to the road
as if abandoned?