the poetry knook, the poetry of stephen m. james

No idea where I’m going

Hunched on my couch with flannel and ‘boggin:
comatose.
I’ve drawn in my antennae (and) vision,
afraid to breathe my words for their heat,
trying to shut out the cold outside and in.
if strength is perfected in weakness,
call me Atlas–once leading men
now sulking alone
with my circular burden.


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