Friday, September 28, 2018

Kristen de Kline #228 The thousandth day

I missed the thousandth day
what was I thinking

the poem was half-formed
struggling, too many words

that couldn’t be spoken
at dusk I watched one

hundred suns falling
across the man-made lake

replaying Chester Bennington
talking about: this place right here

signalling at his skull:
that is a bad neighbourhood ...

a shooting star burns up
the Gods peer down

I'm a day behind
forgive me




3 comments:

  1. Love this poem, Kristen. I particularly like how it is on the wrong side of borrowed time -- and how it struggles inside the skull. Congrats!

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    1. Thanks dear Rob for listening & yes you’ve nailed it! KdK

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  2. You nailed it! The mystique chronology.

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