Summary
Puppet Strings was part of a set of poems entitled Masquerade.
Warmed beneath porcelain dreams
Through open ears and eyes
- a babe cried and sighed
Feeling taut pulls from puppet strings
Cradled in arms powdered white
By pristine parents hiding
- ready for an evening of living and lying
They delivered their child that night
These designers and architects painted
And sculpted this fleshy clay
- layer upon layer, peeling away
Birthing a facade trussed up in strings