Whickerbelly
Night sky slathered on the walls,
A room spinning like a pinwheel in the breeze;
I don’t know why i keep doing this to myself,
Like a bee heavy with honey, dancing one last lament across the ground.
“I no longer hear the lord’s voice”
It whispers, like it ever heard it to begin with.
Sunlight splattered on the window,
Like kerosene or so much stained glass,
Suturing my skull to the ache.
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I love the imagery of this poem so much. It is strong and meshed well through the lines. It carries the urgency and the sorrow with us until the very last line.
always a delight to see your poems on here. your diction has such punch. love the parallelism in the structure of the first line and the line after the break