Wednesday, January 21, 2015

This is "Tremors" by Mic M. L. Silverline. It is one of two of his poems which were recently published in the Labyrinth Literary Journal.

These eyes-lids are puppets –
hair-triggered
                                 the neck sags – pupils recoil
                                    And I Drop.
Pretending
to be unbeaten – twitching fiction
         Jaw drops out – useless; enfeebled
                   my hands cover it
                         They stall – they gawk
                                        While my head seethes
When will it stop?                             Flickers-twitches
       A racking that does not kill                             twitch
                        only pains                                      Drop.
                            Demanding – capturing me
                                            I cannot escape
They come                                  always there
        Quick and quicker                   prosecuting
               Drop.                        Through glass
                                                            Drop.
They
      shatter me – outcast me
                        I sway and waver
                                       They persist – I am lapsing
                                             My world is lapsing – waiting
Drop.                                                  World out
Too quick                                                         Drop.
            It fights against the body 
                                A tooth-tipped stabbing
                                                 mouth bleeding –
      gurgling
                                                               Clicking phlegm
                                                 Wheezing from a sand-bagged esophagus  
                                                                          
                        I am derailed – Drop.

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