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Thursday, September 19, 2019

Thank you to Poetica Review for publishing "Mondsüchtig:. 




Mondsüchtig (Lunatic)

What is the sound 
of starvation of words?

When the flames of expression
die in the grate

When your tangle of memory,
like twisted sheets,
strangle on a bed of thought

The weapon of your tongue
now dulled

If words come from thoughts
and thoughts make the world

will you now expose
the unexpected guise
of the lunatic
within your sphere?

your grand optimism to still the world
with your single word
“me”

lies dead on the ground
as millions of voices rise above yours,
all of them asking others

“what can I do to help?”

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