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Reflections

Mike Brennan

A cracked mirror stared ahead
with a stoic reflection
of selfish intention
seven years of misfortune
& the layered failures
of the point where my
future laid waste to my past

It is everything to comfort
a shivering November
weak from weeks
of scarlet pneumonia
& such diseases devised
if only so that I
can duck a decoy’s duties
& derive a most potent poison
from the very essence of my health

My mind drinks down a shipwreck
of fog, foam, & flame
& flees the futile scene
with the courageous cowardice
of an expert in indulgences

The sun’s tears slide
down my deserted dome
until my nostrils inflame
& are scorched with sand
My eyes recede &
cower away from the sea
I somersaults & shifts
into the shape of me
a stranger in the strangest of lands
where the legless dance the lead
& the sightless savor
a single second to see
something beyond
a visionary clapping of hands
somewhere beyond the barriers
that barely withstand
all the forces breaking
at the bones of man.

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