Blur (collaborative poem w/Tre Loadholt)

By TheFeatheredSleep May 14, 2018

Echoes of pierced hearts
Taunting evil deeds
Motherless child from a
Damaged womb

Breathless before God
And his followers
Atonement expires
Heat drenches a soaked soul

A sparrow breaks his wing
Black ash falls from the sky
Voodooed and seanced
A blur, a speck no one sees
Or knows

If you moved from colored bruise beneath silken pour of sleeplessness

Supple backed, dewy salt, two thrust on tiptoe, catching breath

Shards blending, fizzured pulse, ever and ever, tongued capture

Flush against humid glass, hold–pressing fierce crimson, disturbing numinous hour of sewing

Children with boiled seaside sweets, deep in their catkin singing mouths, dream of a dark cast–shrouding

Morning’s nectered promise, fed gobfuls of glib adult reassurance

insubstantial as fluttered dancers heart

Yet as I quit–the hingeless drug

Your smudged anger envelops, the stray chill of my shoulder

As a bandage will hold us, burned into place.

Until moths pick their way from water-painted cocoon

Feeling their way in inked shiver, milked squid, gesturing tresses

Your long goose neck–bent to catch, last wetting of ground

For rain begins her throbbed drumming, swelling in granite intensity

And I, shake my lethargy off

Pack pain in her paisley ring box

Tasting cyanide and fruit

In the orange peel of day

Chasing last whisper

Of her quiet running horror.

Collaborative poem by Tre Loadholt & Candice Daquin

Inspiration: Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49001/ariel

Artwork: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/328410997808168523/

Tre Loadholt: https://acorneredgurl.com and https://medium.com/a-cornered-gurl

Candice Daquin: https://thefeatheredsleepcom.wordpress.com/

Categories: #desire #endurance #fear #life #love CollaborativePoetry UncategorizedTags: #anxiety, #Blur, #candicedaquin, #CollaborativePoem, #depression, #female, #Homage, #pain, #plath, #poetry, #prose, #sexton, #suicide, #sylviaplath, #TheFeatheredSleep, #TreLoudholt, #truth, #womenpoets, #WritingPartners

30 Replies to “Blur (collaborative poem w/Tre Loadholt)”

Fabulous! Bravo to both 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Powerful…

Thank you. I have writers-block at the moment but Tre is one of those power-writers who always powers through any blocks in the road, she really inspired this one more me because she was the power in our collaboration and I’m very honored to work with her on this. I appreciate you reading it.