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ALICEN - > SOUND OFF! -> A POEM: "CHARTED LAND"
A POEM: "CHARTED LAND"

CHARTED LAND

I float encaptured

in my own freedom

under a beheaded sky,

 

Nerves unnerved

by some Lydian rhythm

(a raking fingernail

across the blackboard backdrop

of blind eyes),

 

And grope unseeing, unseen,

for boundaries,

those neat squares of existence

thought to be.

 

  I know instead

An uncharted land.

 

Rhythm stilled,

Unfamiliar memory

ends a restless search

and leads my cold, frantic hands

To the charted land

 

Where they repose, with gratitude,

On granite

Engraved.

 ©2008 Reprinted by Alicen Jay, nom de plume for author 

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