Personal Passover

Personal Passover

 

Frosted windows growl icy refractions of bright betrayal

Like angry dogs gaze at raw meat with glazed black marble eyes

 

Dreamy skyline sleeps fetal with her troubled head on the river

And her frigid feet flat against my bare chest

 

Fish bone textured ceilings breath and squirm

Double kick bass drum anxiety rattles framed days from stone walls

 

Infomercials retake the static field and the sun crashes into my head

 

Morning birds all seem to have laryngitis  

Songs sound like a Biblical plague of toads

Would someone please free the Israelites?

 

Blood test results lie flat like vandalized tombstones

Tomorrowless screams have soaked into my diseased marrow

 

Shadowy angel has passed me over one more night

I’m craving an all-the-way pizza breakfast

 

Must still be alive

Reviews

[What happened to simple..]

'Dreamy skyline sleeps fetal with her troubled head on the river
And her frigid feet flat against my bare chest

Fish bone textured ceilings breath and squirm
Double kick bass drum anxiety rattles framed days from stone walls'

^ This alone is so powerful, made me think about a father crying, rivers of tears, his anxiety, shaking irrationally, as if he's having a panic attack, everything is closing in in him, claustrophobic as his baby girl seeks warmth in the cold room, laying on his cold chest...

[KAREN]

Anothe brillant write!! Well done my friend!!

[Maurice]

You've done it again. This is magnificent.

[Kerry O'Connor]

That second stanza is immortal - a couplet in its own right and perfect. (Love it)

Only you could offer a pizza breakfast as a response to a death sentence... Must be alive indeed.

[Hollow Man]

I would call each new day a vicious cycle but your images make every day an unique new experience. The second stanza is one of the prettiest images ever created id say.

KGS

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

a dystopian, surreal painting on a textured canvas~ passage through the evening canal into yet another cradle in the dawn~ what better way to awaken than to crave the slice~