Overnight

An exquisite architect

steals

through the window

tiptoes

across our borders

and creates

a beaded shanty home

hung with dew.

But you shudder

at such

perfect cunning,

slam

the casement

on my rapture

and just like that

blow it away.

Valerie Morton has been most recently published in South Bank Poetry, The New Writer, Indigo Dreams, Ver Poets and the Word Aid Anthology Not Only the Dark. She was runner up in the 2011 Essex Poetry Festival competition. She runs a Creative Writing group for a mental health charity and is working on publishing an anthology of their work shortly.