Tag: mental health

Faustian Sentences p. 3

we put together
thoughts
like good TV
to pull quick
against a profile
of guilt at
every detail

Faustian Sentences p.2

The series of short verses “Faustian Sentences” were written while inpatient for mental health concerns. Each sightof handshanding over meds in papercups takesa sleight of mind stolen from timespent alonewhen each of us is judgedby the juryof our fears. * inside ofone momentthe day plungesinto glare and the tremorswe call plansretreatinto machines * three days…

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Faustian Sentences, p. 1

we speak at times
to no one
and at others
to ourselves

words that cover
what’s between us
and the absence
never there

even if they seem
like what they are
or if they are
what they do not