Poems by Kieren ------ "scared to wake" And scared to wake from childhood dreams we built imaginations from what we had seen then moved away to some place free across the mountains to the eastern sea to the halls of learning physics, astronomy, and maths to office buildings of towering glass. ------ "unimpressed day" on this unimpressed day whose nights seem like all others monotonous and slow but nearly over as the sky lightens outside the window and you will know it is morning when the seagulls begin to perch tapping with beak and wing the plasticky window pane of glass and almost soon the sun will rise as you examine the empty coffee pot and the loud hissing of steam from beside the stove and roll over again with your eyes firmly closed ______ she moves through the fair and it seems darker there in the corner where she stood where the air's grown colder and there lingers the fragrance of death across the carnival rides and merry go rounds her face becomes a vision that will someday reappear in the photographs i took of the corner where she stood and i will remember her the little lonely girl that moved through the fair ------ the end.