THE SOUTHWESTERN REVIEW BLOG: The hole of our minds

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The hole of our minds

Shapeless,

Fearless,

Engulfing the left cerebrum.

It follows the eyes, extracting the color, down to the nose:

The senses are misread.

Fear breaks out among us all;

What will come of us next?

The strange vortex leads down

To our lungs and sits at the heart.

Our minds collapse into a hole;

The heart stops beating every second;

Our systems pour into the universe;

A distant

light

fades

away

By: Taylor Coen

1 comment:

Taylor CoenFebruary 12, 2012 at 12:16 PM
It's Coen. Not Cohen.
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