O:JA&L Poetry: All forms & styles
Rick K. Reut
(TRAVELING THROUGH YOUR HEAD)
…as the night starts to fall
like a cup full of cold
coffee or a lost soul
somebody has been told
about again. The street
circulates neon blood
from a place where you meet
yourself fighting a flood
of emotions. The thoughts
travelling through your head
look for new parking lots
of words that sound mad
even to you. Before
you can finally dare
go outside, the door
becomes an electric chair
of anticipation of
someone turning it on
and then turning it off.
Another day is gone…
…as the night starts to fall like a cup full of cold coffee or a lost soul somebody has been told about again. The street circulates neon blood from a place where you meet yourself fighting a flood of emotions. The thoughts travelling through your head look for new parking lots of words that sound mad even to you. Before you can finally dare go outside, the door becomes an electric chair of anticipation of someone turning it on and then turning it off. Another day is gone…
About the writer:
Rick K. Reut was born in 1984 in the USSR. He studied philosophy at EHU in Minsk, Belarus, and literature at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. For most of his life after graduation, Reut has worked as a translator and a tutor of English as a foreign language.
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