simple

simple depth

darkness

simple tendrils

pull

lightless beast

comes

I am not alone

teeth set into 

bone

hear the crunch

feel the tissue 

split

my mind also

I thought I had

left this

thought time had

saved me,

but simple things

ride time

and mine is

out

Reviews

[Toni Prehoda Kahler]

I am so thrown by the title and the use of the word "simple" repeated, as this piece seems anything but simple (to me). I am being asked into this dark place, where violence waits, hungers, devours. And oh, I love those images of dark beast devouring; relate to "tendrils pull" into that dark place. So I am intrigued and frustrated by this piece, but find it fascinating at the end. Am I closer to getting it? It doesn't matter, only that I sense something "eating" at you, something you thought long abandoned. Favorite lines: "but simple things/ride time/and mine is/out. Great finale!

I like how this seems fragmented, like the mind when it's thinking at times.
But it flows so well.