I Am
I am…
I am dismantled debris – scattered pieces of waste and remains flung carelessly from the point of generation.
I am the sludge of ancestorial drosses – filtered scum leftover and encapsulated within my occluded spaces.
I am ambient tortured tones – cleverly shimmering before one’s ear until cry of the cornered hare explodes unstable.
I am off-gassing vapor – transitory bubbling of diffused believes, misunderstandings, and bias from past generational exposures.
I am salvaged components – dispositioned towards chipping away thing superfluous to breath within the limited headspace.
I am an intermittent vacuum – appearing and disappearing, traversed by compressional waves of rarefaction; fragmentarily exhausted.
I am imperfectly human.
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Came to me this morning in the shower – the best surprises result from pounding streams of steamy water.
i can feel the mist
of inspiration
i like all the things you say you are
esp. “salvaged components”
thank you – that is kind – very
This is brilliant. Well done, Dana.
thank you Linda. 🙂
Each stanza is a poem in itself. Lots of really nice phrasing –
I am ambient tortured tones – love.
thank you Sylvia – that is a dear compliment coming for you – your poems are like mental vacations to another place and time.
Each line makes you slow down and think, and the build-up to “I am imperfectly human” is lovely. It was also quite fun reading through the myriad of words you used. : )