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Eclipse Of The Sun
I want more.
Plodding from present
to future in slow decay
finds me a less fortunate
friend fighting to focus
on an eclipse of my sun.
Looking in the mirror
I see some gaunt specimen.
Sound shivers and is garbled,
words fail and hang somewhere
untouched on the wrong side
of my lips in ghostly limbo.
My brain is a nodule of nothing
tapering off into gray infinity
and I sit dipped in darkness
squeezing out words as punishment.
An abyss awaits and a dark
wave splashes forward.
Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper is a poet-in-residence at Argonaut's Boat and soldiersheart.org.
Her poetry has appeared in numerous International, hard copy and internet magazines. Her chapbook,
Reach Beyond was winner of the MAG Press International Chapbook Competition and two of her chapbooks,
A Slice Of Live and Mood Magic were published at Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry.
Twenty-three of her poems were presented in the play Soldier's Heart at Portland State University to Sold Out audiences and recorded on DVD.
Email: Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper
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