MASTERPIECE #3474

/// Little June turned back, not feeling brave.
Goose bumps spread ‘cross her flesh in a wave.
She holds onto Mom’s dress
cold with fear. It’s June’s guess
that a goose just walked over her grave.

/// Her dark visions will give her no peace.
Signs and omens appear without cease.
June tuned in to “Dimensions”
Pastor Brown never mentions—
ever since she was goosed by those geese.

/// She gets spooked when they go to the well.
Startled by the geese, that’s where she fell.
Papa’d heard her shrill shout.
Nearly drowned, was pulled out
from the place where the water sprites dwell.

/// In that well, June’s Oh-two-deprived brain
soon lost interest in all things mundane.
Some may say with disdain
that this girl is insane,
but that doesn’t, her new skills, explain.

/// Since that accident, folks think June might
have acquired powers called “second sight.”
She predicts things that do
very often come true,
and the neighbors regard her with fright.

/// Pastor Brown, in his sermons, will note
that June’s known to converse with a goat.
There is evidence which
proves the child can bewitch.
When she fell in the well, did she float?

/// June’s abilities came at a cost;
from her side of the street “good” folks crossed.
In a few years she’ll be
by her hormones set free.
Puberty comes and “powers” are lost.

/// When their teen years they start to traverse,
many fictional kids get the “curse”
of abilities weird,
(before then they’re not feared),
but for June this played out in reverse.

/// Teenage hormones will suddenly surge
and, in some, mutant traits may emerge,
but that chemical flood
in this young person’s blood
acted as an occult-power purge.