WHAT DID I LEARN? – II
(Ode to a Plague)

 

What did I learn
these past 3.5 years?
I learned to go deep
deep into the well
of desire
petrified
by immobility
radiant with forgetfulness

Climb out of
that well now
limbs
putty
mind
jelly
heart
stone
drunk
with forgotten
selves
with desire
consummated by forgetfulness

Crawling out
of a hole
of a darkess
all mine
into
blinding brilliance
magnified ten-fold

I am old
awakening
as a different
some body
who are these aliens around
me or is it me
in fact?

 

– Diane Sophrin
  Burlington airport 10:10 am
  (9.7.22)

 

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