My Own Abyss

despair, identity formation, inner speech, poetry, sonnets, Uncategorized

 

falling-apart

To resist

My

Dismantling,

 

The nibble

And nip

Of niggling voices,

 

I must stop

Listening

To myself—

 

The snide

Mocking

Laughter

 

Which waits

To eviscerate.

 

(January 9, 2018)

 

 

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I am a poet and a teacher living in central Texas. I attended The University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College's Breadloaf School of English.

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