NaPoWriMo Day 28

Day 28

Today's poetic offering for National Poetry Writing Month is a description of stuffiness you cannot escape when it is within you.

COTTONHEAD BLUES

I've been off the grid for days
The passage of time I record
only as a habit too long and too deeply entrenched
My head is filled with downy white wadding
My mind refuses to focus
My mouth, dry as cotton balls
My thirst unquenchable
My ears are stuffed with soft white fluff
muffling the conversations of today
into muted, pretty background noise
My parched skin screams "Yield"
as I wander the house in a strange fugue
of distant awareness and detached interest

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An awesome find

The last couple of days have been so awesome.  I ran across some short memoirs and poetry I wrote while going through cancer treatment and the period shortly thereafter.  I am looking forward to finishing my edits on them so that I may share them or look at possibilities for publication.  I am really excited.

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