Transparent Words - Poetry

 
A Month Without Poems
 
By Rich Furman
 
You think of a month
Without poems
 
Life between grinding stones
Scraping gems to dust
 
No head spinning
Sirens of angst
 
The steady pull
Into trance like madness
 
That transposes sour dream notes
Into the fodder that pulls you out of bed
 
For the first time in a month
An origami winter folds
 
Into something wonderfully alive
Bloody and real
 
And you think about
You're healing wounds
 
And those that mend
More slowly.
 

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