lost insight

29 Oct 2021

·Jaybird

sleep leaves me too soon there a glowing ember of its meaning this thing called life an answer just beyond searching fingertips here the world the real insight fades fast segues into the chilly embrace of the mundane it is gone with the dream maybe next time the answer will be mine before I wake

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Jaybird

I am retired, having worked primarily as a librarian, but have done freelance proofreading, copy editing, and book reviewing. I wrote some poetry many years ago, but decided it was bad and stopped, since I had other things to do. For the last ten...

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