Kim Rodrigues Poet Free verse

Delirium

“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”

— Lauren Oliver, Delirium

DELIRIUM

oxytocin on her sleeve
     where she
dribbled;

      bonnet bunched up
chucked in closet.

a harum-scarum skeleton,
       big knobby head
    on baptismal pillow.

its silk molding;
     trichotillomania.

feverish chattering
               of bony teeth,

always half-asleep.

the purring of a kitten,
warm with milk.

          she’s verifiable.

7/22/2020
Delirium Poetry Contest
Kai Michel Neumann

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Brian Sambourne October 13, 2021 at 9:47 PM Very moving. The short, sharp lines convey the aged's slip into lost worlds. Powerful. Be well. Brian Kim Rodrigues October 14, 2021 at 5:45 AM Thank you for reading, Brian! Thank you.

Arturo Michael July 24, 2020 at 11:11 AM It's awful to imagine that state of mind...You achieved the effect here... Kim Rodrigues July 24, 2020 at 12:22 PM That would be a bd state to be in. God bless and comfort those who walk through the valley of death.

Gershon Wolf July 22, 2020 at 5:13 PM This is delirium, alright, howling into the grave... gave me the chills. :) gw Kim Rodrigues July 22, 2020 at 7:59 PM Thanks, Gershon. A hard write.