Inside my brain - planets circle round a star
- words I never said;
caged by electricity
lacking courage, sleeping in a bed.
No leverage, no spluttering
associations in my head;
lonely, aging, damned, archaic;
dormant, Yellowstone, dead.
Detail, detail! Yes, but sound matters
and words are never sterile, hungry, sleepy or unfed:
defy gravity, unlock a feeling force because
at least these lines, I say, are fully said.
I like this poem a lot.
ReplyDeleteLove those 1st lines, planets circle round a star, caged by electricity. I can see it & still there's so much room left that I have to fill in the gaps & imagine. A little verbal organism. Dormant, Yellowstone dead...So final, a tombstone composed of unspoken words. Yes, unlock a feeling force. Those unspoken words tend to propagate in my head...what I could've or should've said. I really really like this one & I'm not entirely sure why. It just pushed a button inside me. Keep Going!
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