3 poems found in the notes app on my phone
1. Inexplicable Sensations Like a dog, maybe, I get hotspots Parts of my body that ache Or feel chafed Feel sore to the touch Or stiff to move "Ouch!" This odd sensitivity Defies all sense No doctors know No one understands "Don't touch that!" My body is not mine It hurts Who is this really? 2. And Yet and yet another dreary morning straying from the charted path and lost in a blue-lipped haze despite the dedicated climbing despite the strict limitations feet on the narrow course upward eyes trained on prescribed footprints and yet during the nightmare night arms flailed and legs fell and my entire body spiraled downhill in a feast of tumbling tremors waking in that dreaded ditch again coated in wet sludge and thorns unrecognizable, a masked shell on yet another dreary morning once again, once again 3. Star Light, Star Bright I lay at the bottom of a ravine A think trickle of cold water on my back, Sharp stones lodged into my neck But I feel nothing I am weigh
