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Poem Details
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| Title: | The grey recedes, the gloom remains |
| Author: | Kate McInnes |
| Date Submitted: | 1/10/2009 |
| Email: | panthus11@hotmail.com |
| Poem: |
The ocean's rocks roar Warm inky tendrils froth and sway into silky deliciousness... An endless chorus. The grey recedes, the gloom remains I can’t close my eyes Two gashes Stinging, prism-wrapped, rainbow-slashes Those salty, soul-seared, wounded slots Ache, for sleep Ahhh... to shed this useless skin and lapse into blissful blackness the cool dark plunge, sound and light fractured free. What time is it? Life thrashes on around me. It’s bluntly thrusting, greedy will. Words bubbling upward They grow, scream, drift and die, open mouthed, A grotesque and breathless... rhythm Now the cool briny welcome kiss Sighing I drink, I gulp gasping as I swallow the moon and stars and the panic of my body is still. I close my eyes... |