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Eyelash

March 15, 2014
By EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath


A spindly silver thread
caught in the air, caught in a net of straw.
A spindle—a tickle of wire in palm.

Wire is silk.
Silk is thread is soft is spindly silver.
Silver is flame.
Flame like a silver thread.

A speck on my wish-cream cheek,
a stretch in my brain.
They told me that's not what I am.

Broken poetry strands in my hair—
a tear, a tear.
They told me that's not what I am.


The author's comments:
Again, this poem is the kind of thing that happens when I read too much Gertrude Stein. Awkward detail, I had it and "Ink Spots" written on a scrap paper with a bunch of other mumble jumbo and random lines of metaphor... and I lost it. At school. Very thankfully without my name on it.

The poem is about wishing to be something I'm not, and the struggle of trying to find myself a life that is depression free. Then again, it's mostly free association about eyelashes--so much fun to read aloud! :)

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