Monday, May 27, 2013

NEW POEM


ON THE VALUE OF ANOXIC HALLUCINATION

We are given more sensory apparatus than we can handle
at once. Maturity means learning to ignore.
Time elephant-charges by us or stalls out
(You know that's true) .
We obey two rules: stay alive, and
write a story to fit the chaos. What you do for me
is listen. All I ever wanted.

 


by Maggie Jochild, written 27 May 2013, 10:23 p.m.