self from self

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Can I transcend the bounds of who I am?

When the lump in your throat

Prevents swallowing

Constricts air

Eliminates voice

Can I detach myself from self

     a leaf’s descent

     float into the existence of asleepness

When the toes below you no longer tap

Your eyes weighed down by your cheeks below

An impenetrable self

   Unphased by the sun

   Or the phases of the moon

   Or…

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Stopped Time

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No greater relaxation

Than to stop the

Passage of time

The cares below our window

Halt

The new quiet illuminates

How great the roar of traffic

Was

To be busy is to be loud

The flame stands up right

Above the wick

The tick of the clock

The one that consumes

All thoughts from my brain at night

Ceases

The fans once straining to cool our skin

No longer flip the corner of the…

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Zero Ideas

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Zero ideas. Zero ideas. My thoughts have leaked from my brain like the lavender scent of my oil diffuser. The difference being my diffuser fills my cozy (tiny) room with a fragrance containing the power of relaxation and mental healing while my thoughts have only dissipated into the yellow light of the coffee shop I sit within. The difficulty being that I came here to force ideas out of my head,…

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My Self-Sufficient Beast

Trees at Walker Loop Ranch Hike

Wind makes me angry. I am not an angry person and yet the feeling of the air blowing a little too roughly and a little too cold contains the power to completely frustrate me. Some research states that wind creates an excess of positive ions and alters serotonin levels making us more irritable and tense. In the ancient Ottoman empire, crimes committed during their…

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