Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Stuart Rawlinson #78 - The Long Sleep

Proto-retirement
Deadening of the senses
Listen to the palm trees
Catch a rare breeze
Soften your steps and
Glide over the flags
The fan turns
Frame by frame
I count and equate
A dead cell at every pass
Take a deep breath
Diaphragm lift
For a wide vacuum
Turning blue
In the lightless sky

2 comments:

  1. In his essay “Beginning to Remember,” Adam Zagajewski writes, “A strong poetic talent produces two contradictory phenomena. It suggests, on the one hand, intense participation in the life of your age, plunging into it up to your neck, an obsessive experiencing of actuality. It leads, on the other hand, to a certain kind of alienation, distance, absence. It is ceaseless interplay of proximity and distance.”

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