Anyway ... got 20 poems done for last month (yay, me!) which brings me up to where I wanted to be in terms of targeting a yearly total. We still need to see what sort of effects this drug and going back to school will have on my writing ... if I find myself writing 20 poems a month I might push back to the 250/year target, although that will involve some "catching up" ... for the time being I'll keep the "quota" 17/month for a 200/year total.
By the way ... I think I'll be putting these behind a cut tag from now on. I just hope that folks will click on the damn link when it shows up!
A TOTAL DIMMING OF THE LIGHT
subsistence structures
scrambled systems
nothing central
nothing whole
all falling is away
all collapsing into down
suddenly empty
abruptly unwell
no tracking comes
of pathways here,
every form blurs
as lines entwine,
complexifying,
confusing sight,
disturbing stasis
and adding noise
descending vectors
attaining mass
creating sway
towards lower states,
we are dragged along,
body and spirit,
finding decay
and unexpected taints
shadows accumulate
spilling from corners
and hidden zones,
intimating darknesses
yet to rise to being;
this frames anticipation
on way too many planes
of a total dimming of the light
in decline we fail
in submission now
to the gravities
of these alien stars,
doomed to orbits
defined by pain,
cycles of dire degradation
darker than the abyss
- Brendan Tripp
02/28/2002
Copyright © 2002 by Brendan Tripp