Saturday, April 30, 2016

Wired Minds

 This is what it feels like to be a writer (or a collector of anything).

 

Collection

I started out

with just a pen

the promise of pre-filled space

and my jumbled, tumbled thoughts.

Raucous ramblings reimagined

on paper,

not all my own, some

quips or quotations

careening, cascading,

transferred from mind

to metamorphosed meanderings

making their way to the other side of the lines.

Words dropped with gradual gravity

gathering,

gaps filling in empty pages,

fluttering, flickering,

fears and fantasies entrapped,

entangled,

bound like so many books

stacked unceremoniously on my desk.

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