Archive for July 25th, 2009
Deep Summer
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Poetry
Deep Summer
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I inhale
then stop
nostrils singed by scalded air
too hot and thick to breathe
haltingly
I fill my lunges
to bake them in sustaining breath
this inferno to endure
skin weeps
salted droplets trace my spine
baste my neck
gather in the hollow
of my labored chest
hesitant in its struggle
bitter beads bloom and seep
from beneath the smother
of matted soak –
ooze down fevered slope
into my eyes
…and [...]
