{"id":10471,"date":"2014-10-28T23:53:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2014-10-28T23:53:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:53:45","slug":"poems-by-a-j-huffman-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=10471","title":{"rendered":"poems by A.J. Huffman"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Forgotten Space<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I watch the world through glasses made of lead.<\/p>\n

Their cold, gray vision proves most accurate,<\/p>\n

if top-heavy.\u00a0 A great deal of weight to carry,<\/p>\n

I rest often, lying in pools of pessimistic slush.<\/p>\n

My body begins to emulate the texture of seepage,<\/p>\n

dreams of becoming quicksand, waits patiently<\/p>\n

for the day it crosses its own path and consumes itself.
\n<\/p>\n

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Another Empty Night<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

gets filled by my sleepless mind.<\/p>\n

Ticks of the clock get counted,<\/p>\n

catalogued for no reason<\/p>\n

other than the sound of their voice<\/p>\n

intrigues me.\u00a0 A staring contest<\/p>\n

with the stars (who always blink first)<\/p>\n

turns into a conversation<\/p>\n

of composition with the moon.<\/p>\n

I tell her I would like to sprinkle<\/p>\n

bits of her surface into an urn, keep them<\/p>\n

as an epitaph to possibility.\u00a0 She laughs,<\/p>\n

noncommittally.\u00a0 I turn<\/p>\n

to the cable-fed tube of modernity,<\/p>\n

baffle over its addictive banality.<\/p>\n

Finally, I change<\/p>\n

the channel, face another blank page,<\/p>\n

wield only my pen as an ax<\/p>\n

until one of us bleeds something<\/p>\n

that resembles a discernible thought.<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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I Am Chalk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

outline, a designator<\/p>\n

of space that once held<\/p>\n

a body.\u00a0 Static, I mimic<\/p>\n

death.\u00a0 Echoing a need<\/p>\n

to look deeper, I am intrigue,<\/p>\n

a puzzle to be pondered,<\/p>\n

solved, then labeled accidental,<\/em><\/p>\n

or worse, unnatural<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Unhammered Nail<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Silver sliver of connectivity.\u00a0 Metal<\/p>\n

stud, designed to join, hold<\/p>\n

in place.\u00a0 Lying on floor,<\/p>\n

point unnecessary, it stares<\/p>\n

at potential pieces, misses<\/p>\n

the thunderous pain of pounding,<\/p>\n

that one victorious moment<\/p>\n

of puncture, of disappearing<\/p>\n

into seamless flush.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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