I asked Princess Di to dance
She was biking across the heath
in a glum mood
wearing an expression
that might have suited
Thomas Hardy
In fact, she would have taken up my offer
She would have danced with me
Who knows what else she might have done?
what we would have done together
But a tornado had blown down Windsor Castle
and she had to hurry back
to make repairs
I saw a trowel in her bicycle basket
caked with cement
I knew that besides being a princess
she had many other skills
and here
was still more evidence
Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois has had over fourteen-hundred of his poems and fictions appear in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. He has been nominated for numerous prizes, and was awarded the 2017 Booranga Writers’ Centre (Australia) Prize for Fiction. His novel, Two-Headed Dog, is based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital, is available for Kindle and Nook, or as a print edition. His new poetry collection was published in 2019, The Arrest of Mr Kissy Face. He lives in Denver, Colorado, USA.