Liquid Language

Liquid Language

Poetry is a virus that lies dormant in me,
beneath the frozen soil of my skin,
until the sudden quivering bloom of liquid language
ruptures my thawing flesh in a bloodletting of the pen
that splatters the blinding-white ice sheet of the page
with a code blue of black ink and purple prose.

you can see more of my poems and essays all previously published on my new blog www.apoetsperspective.com, where i also have an editorial services page, as i'm a freelance editor and writer.

That might be rationalized hematoma, or a worse pest. Go get a checkup and a sound scan for blockages.