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Rusting Wheels
Words appear in my head,
little miracles like drops of water.
I wish to gather the fragments
into speech but words fling
across space and vanish unheard,
whisper harsh and bitter in my throat.
Sadness rests heavy on my back.
Wheels grab and gather more rust.
Has my brain hardened or disintegrated,
I don’t know, my reality has its limitations.
I’m wintering inside my frozen mind
but I can still enjoy a piece of fudge.
The Glass Box
Hour after hour I sit mindless,
where are my glasses, where are…
Words have been snuffed out
without ceremony, spool in my
mouth and are lost.
My mind has lost contact with
my voice and fear of becoming
misplaced pierces my soul.
…ah, I don’t have shoes on because
I can’t remember where I put them.
Life fades slowly in this state,
just isolation in a glass box
and I remain only an imitation of life.
Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper Living in Portland, Oregon, Sharon is an active member of the Friends
of The Oregon Symphony, Words Of a Woman Net Society and very much a today's woman.
An astrological Leo, this lady thrives on poetry and music.
She has been published in lingerings, The Words of a Woman Net Society, Horsethief Journal, Wired Arts from Wired Hearts,
Painted Poet Literary and Art Journal, Fluid Ink Press, Ophelia's Muse, Stride Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Vinland Journal,
Poetry Niederngasse, Arcanum Cafe, Some Words, Poetic Reflections, Wilmington Blues, In The Eyes Of The Wild, Rustlings
Of The Wind, Westlovian Gazette, Erosha Literary Journal, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, Creations Journal, Emerging from Twilight - Vol. 2.
and Before the Last Shadow Fades, Vol. 3, both A Shadow Poetry Collection, Panda Poetry Magazine, Mi Poesias E-Zine, Battle Stars',
Providers in Partnership for Kids, Swan Dive, Wicked Alice, Verse Libre, La Rosa Blanca, Scope Journal, Haiku Hut, WRITE ON!!,
Book of Remembrance Poetry Anthology, Vol. 2, Muse Whispers, The Green Fuse, Peshekee River Poetry, The Circle of Addiction,
Sound and Silence Magazine, Sol Magazine, Australian Poetic Society, Poetic Voices and many others.
Email: Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper
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