Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Interlude

Illness is a kind of intoxication
In which you drink pure pain
Like a freezing glass of pure grain
Alcohol. All your senses strain
Against a kind of ontological membrane --

If it breaks you die.

Slowly that psychological feeling like sky
Infuses the room where you lie
And your inmost you, letting go,
Presses itself against the dirty window
Where the dirt seems to form a kind of rainbow.

So few and so slow
Are the things you remember to know
As you fall behind
With lazy motions of the mind

And really begin to unwind.

1 comment:

  1. No posts since May? What gives? We miss your enlightened commentary on the situation. And voting day is upon us. Ashevillekat

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