AH

If I'd known this image
were a rusted-dangled key
I'd have turned away.
This most obvious of cliché
not for me.

Not my sort of image
nothing springs to mind.
I'd go as far as saying – Ah  

Ceci n’est pas une pipe

If I'd known this image
were a shiny-dangled hook
I'd have plucked it
from its wire, twisted-bent
and tortured it, until

it gave – but nothing
springs to mind.
I think I'd go as far as saying –