Two Insomnia Poems

by rain70

Posted to Poetry on 2003-04-27 10:47:00

BEASTIES

My vision of the border.
Waking up to ones’ self
As fasting breakfast,
Dreams caught between teeth.

Back to the shingles of home.
Of home there is an ace in the
Deck, what does that mean
To a solitary game?

Here is the blunt knife
And a bread. Here is
The cannibal of mission
Wholly infused with kingly diet.

Here is the animal of queen

Staked out in shavings of flame.

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FINITE

I guess the logician, heartfelt
Finally released his thunder.
Brooms occur, you see
To sweep the alleys of
Invisible starts, justice

As beginning and whimsy
To an ending is path
Swelling skyward until
Attention is all but deaf
And the problem is solved.

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