http://www.halfwaydownthestairs.net/index.php?action=view&id=329
I wasn't exactly sure I was happy with the decision about the line set up. Now that the moritorium has passed, here is the poem in the original form. I am pretty happy with it, but it was written a long time ago. It was one of the first ones I wrote back in 2007 when I first started writing again. It was originally more than twice the current length. I am glad I got it published before it disappeared entirely.
the nurse hung up the phone; restraints
until then chemical imbalance simply hid
a multitude of unforgiven sins we bothbelieved that it did not excuse the
calls the smell the teeth the rotten shoes
when last we spoke I knew what loose
associations were you called me by my
fathers name and told me how to save
the world I felt every fraying strand of
thread rotating thoughts that dragged
and skipped and then unwound went dead.
