migraine
By Emilee Wirshing
exit your body
close the doors & light only a solitary candle
you are the ghost in this home
invalid, swollen brain, you see
the impossible curling of ordinary objects
the aura is not an oracle but somewhere
(I imagine)
someone believes it is magic,
a foretelling of horrors to come
(that part was true)
now the haunting of this space is left to you
cold and numb in the fingers like a departed thing
they say the mind is full of as many neurons
and sparks as a galaxy, and if that is right
then this is the quasar at the center
pulling in everything and spitting out light
Image/Lava Tube_Heather Lang Cassera.
Double Down Blogger image credit/Emilee Wirshing.
Emilee Wirshing is a librarian and lifelong Nevadan. She advocates for local poets and creativity by hosting various Poetry Open Mic Nights and writing workshops in the community. Her work appears in anthologies Clark, Legs of Tumbleweed, Wings of Lace, and Sandstone & Silver, along with various local and national literary magazines. Her chapbook, american dream houses was published in March of 2020 by Tolsun Books. Emilee’s typewriter poetry can be found on Instagram, @lavendertypewriter.
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