Journaling
He wrote poems that were indicative
of blueberries soaked in vinegar.
He wrote of the shadows
between light and dark,
but mostly he counted the gray hairs
of thinning memories.
The more he wrote
the more crippled his dreamscapes,
he began to word-paint
an unprintable oblivion.
Snow keeps falling.
Ink turns to an Indigo mud,
a smeared script
meandering through a white blank-face.
Archaeologist have fallen asleep in his bones.
A transient darkness
pours through one eye and out the other.
The light he speaks of
is the end of a lit cigarette
in an unlit room,
the curling smoke keeps on writing.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2022
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