meditation – Words and Feathers

sit still long enough and hear
the universe howl in your ears
bees dog-piling on an intruder
the rim of a wine glass
flicked by a broken acrylic fingernail
the silence in the house
when everyone is gone but you

sit still long enough and feel
the universe press in on you
the falsity of gravity
a grey boundary between
your ass and the chair
your skin expanding at light speed
while the universe expands a little bit slower

sit still long enough and regrow
your amputated limbs
stop hitting yourself
taste blood as it drips from sinuses
into your throat
stop hitting yourself
drool as you teethe with a low-grade fever

sit still long enough and you won’t have to wait
for last rites
for burial
for cremation
for eulogies
stop hitting
for silence

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revised: 20161130

Poem 20160107

January 7, 2016 crow3 Comments

easy enough to count
the breaths
to breathe in
breath out
one

feel the tension
in your whole body–
make it tense
on purpose
two

and let it go
feeling muscles
go limp
droop
three

you did this
to yourself
or your body did it
to you
four

and now you have to
find some way to
even it all out
wait, what number–
one