Sunday, August 7, 2016

Head Ache

A tenant has moved into the space
Between my crepe-thin meninges
Without any prior notice.  

He knows to hold tight the flaps
Around my head, and occasionally, gives it a shake –
As if gripping a colander with leaping grains of rice,
Allowing each stick to fall into a gauze of steel,
And then to rise again on the flick of a second launch;
Like lobes of my brain, bobbing up and down
In the sterile world of my skull, each time
My foot touches the ground.  

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