SHOCK’s resident poet Nigel Parkin gives us some SHOCKing sonnets and horrifying haikus.
David Cronenberg’s THE DEAD ZONE
The classroom bell rings.
The children still are sitting,
Held by ‘The Raven’.
He closes his book,
Our hero, haunted by Poe,
Possessing the words.
He speaks the last verse,
Called up from shadows within,
Then lets himself smile.
Is…
