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Wendy
Junior Member

since 1999-09-10

Posts 16
Vermont

0 posted 1999-09-10 02:33 PM

Sometimes in the quiet
You can hear your own living;
The pulsing echo in your ears
Like the breathy throb
Of a degenerate conch.
The raspy throat of death,
Attempting to trick the steady rhythm
Of the gentle heartbeat in repose.

See that--
That sudden pulse
At the back of your head,
That wringing jumble
Of coiled wires poking the senses,
Inducing a gasp
Hyper as a seismograph,
Chest constricting like a bellows.

Is it the inching of groundwater,
The grinding of rock against stone
That makes your bed tremble?
Is it the sighing of old lumber,
A sleepy settling in of tongue upon groove?
Or a distant eighteen-wheeler,
Sending shivers through the tarmac,
Leaving an undulating wake in
The heat-soaked porosity of asphalt?

Exhale slowly until the shaking stops,
And let the comforter suffocate
The shiver of timber and limb.
Count the keys as the veins slip
Into soft metronome beats.
Only in the darkness of death's hallway
Can you hear yourself blink.

Pepper
Member Elite

since 1999-08-19

Posts 3079
Southern Florida

1 posted 1999-09-10 03:16 PM

extraordinary!!!!!!!!!!

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May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams

Balladeer

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

2 posted 1999-09-10 04:57 PM

Between you, Denise and Doreen, I'm gonna have to get three WONDERFUL POEM! stamps!

Michael

Moderator

Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

3 posted 1999-09-10 05:40 PM

Wendy,
This is an extraordinary piece - as always. It is truly a pleasure to see your work here on the Passion's forum. I hope to see more soon.

Michael

desperado
Member

since 1999-05-24

Posts 312
FT Hood,Tx

4 posted 1999-09-10 09:07 PM

wendy -

nice to see you about and writing. I really like this piece. vivid, imaginative and constructive in the way only a few have done for me. congratulations on a job well done.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 1999-09-13 08:44 AM

Absolutely extraordinary!

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