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Girl at Rest

By Eleanor Colligan

I crave the blinding white,

The sheer intensity of it;

Burning your corneas,

Creating a

low, moaning hum that passes through your spinal cord

And turning your fingerprints and everything they’ve ever touched

Caressed or fondled to powdery, meaningless ash.

I relish in the white hot pain.

 

Or perhaps what I desire most is the murky black

The foggy forgetfulness of it;

Temporarily suspended in time.

Here you don’t just float for a moment,

Traipsing in and out of fleeting truth and

Demanding realities.

Where I go

You no longer exist.

 

 

Eleanor Colligan is a junior currently living in Chicago, Illinois. She loves to read and write poetry.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Issue Nine

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