sickness

d jon downs

deep in my gut down
blackness
drips
from crease to fissure

my sickness
keeps

vice holds my heart grip
darkness
tacky
from strand to striation

my sickness
holds

 

mark on my soul smudge
nightness
clinging
from intellect to belief

my sickness
eternal

and i lie powerless
to end its life

 

[2002]