Throwing Shapes

~

within the weird geometry

of insomnia,

skewed door frames

are lit by street lamps

that knife through slatted 

window blinds,

harsh corners form

snagged in the mellow

glow of a bedside clock

and flicker on each turn, 

angular numerals gleam

in recurring palindromes

at 323 and 414 and 505,

spikes slits cracks and

arrowheads are thrown

together like the cover of

a cheap crime fiction 

paperback,

all these shapes one seen 

cannot be unseen within the 

weird geometry of insomnia

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© Graham R Sherwood 10/25