Melinda Smith #17 Darkling with Temazepam

Image from the Nightingale Public Advocacy Collective

Darkling with Temazepam

(erasure poem made from Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’)

I             drink and leave                ,

fade      the forest 

and

the fever

Here

shakes a              sad, last

spectre ;

full of sorrow

eyes

beyond

Darkling

I have been

Call’d

into the air         breath

seems   rich

the midnight

art

an ecstasy 

ears

become.

hungry                tread     down

that music          sleep

© Melinda Smith 2016

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