Gummed Up
Jumped off the edge of yesterday; landed
squarely in the middle of today, felt
the sides of this ride fall away – looked down,
saw the bottom hadn’t really dropped out –
it just feels that way. This, too, shall pass by.
World rocking sensations bring vertigo,
that queasy, half-nervous, half-excited
atmosphere of new love – revived passion.
Impossibilities dancing across –
my field of vision, once blurry, has cleared.
You existed inside me, internal
workings gummed up with love’s glue, quite stubborn,
persistent, persuasive, some things don’t go
easily – as I move forward in life.
01/06/08
January 9, 2009 at 11:51 am
The combination of restraint and emotionality in the poems here is beautiful.
These lines seem to show that combination very clearly:
“Serenity colored in vermillion
has left her echoes on a blank wall here”
Brilliant.