InsomniaA Poem by vigorit is the inescapable duty of every writer to write something about insomnia, and about writer's block. this is my fulfillment of the former requirement.
Previous Version This is a previous version of Insomnia. in tennessee outside my room lived a mockingbird who sang at three o'clock in the morning.
count the nights i was awake with her.
i liked to think her song was full of despair, the loneliness of awakeness at this desperate, transitory hour
and so i felt with her a certain solidarity which i reserved for non-humans:
the love-eyed dogs on strange leashes, the exuberant, fragrant flowers when i was happy, the grass i collapsed into if i needed respite
but now, in alabama, still unwittingly awake as the crickets chorus softly
i recall her exuberant singing, the joyful trills, the improvised melodies twisting upon each other, soaring skyward, on and on, up and up, without pause, without slowing, as if compelled by that which compelled ferns to grow and uncoil and magnolias to burst from their buds,
and i recall for myself the very occasional joy of aloneness, the secret solidarity with only the sleeping sun, at night, in a practice room, spinning out bach-devised melodies and then my own, my own private joy in the bedeviled hour of the night
and realize i may have misplaced my feelings of companionship
and in fact should not have been listening at all © 2009 vigorReviews
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