segregation of reality and perception

It is odd that this recollection comes upon me now.
This faintly haunting memory of a feeling that
Escapes the commonality of ordinary language.
All that I have retained is the scar of that faceless nameless emotion,
Not nearly enough for which to compose prose.
Now as the air about me is heavier than I am,
Thick with a choking biting [...]

Posted at 2:48 pm on 5 Oct 2008 | leave a comment | Filed Under: poetry | Tagged: , , , | read on

inside mine

Love used to be a promise of other things, thing better than what lies in front of you now.
It was a smoky haze covering everything that was important.
Unable to see, unable to dream
Words are jammed together in cattle cars, and shipped off someplace, with the promise of food and water
And a lessening of the suffering, [...]

Posted at 1:00 am on 2 Oct 2008 | leave a comment | Filed Under: poetry | Tagged: , , | read on

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