Hour 4 Fake

Fake

striving for authenticity

but feeling like a

mannequin

randomly found in the

middle of the woods

banging out a song with no audience

and with no legs to run away

Hour 2 “Missing the Pause”

Missing the Pause

 

…Miles to go before I sleep

the days merging

into fast forward 

with very little Pause

 

Pause to be still

Pause for silence

Pause to breathe

 

Today I relish the chance of living in the 

Pause—

For how many unknown miles to go before I sleep

Graced with an Awakening

to the Pause



The text for “miles to go before I sleep”

Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC

Freudian Dreams

Underwater dreams with Freudian themes—
threatening survival;

Stolen from ancient texts on subconscious theory
Underwater dreams with Freudian themes—

Remnants from
the known occasional visitor—

Once again;
Mother themes—

 reclining
on the therapy couch

to analyze and make sense
of the nonsensical;

Underwater dreams with Freudian themes.