Nightmares on Patmos

The flame of a question:
how does one wake from the nightmare
when the nightmare was knitted from strands stolen
from your own epidermis? You cannot possibly understand
the weight of a nation straining, back breaking
underneath a sky that someone told you was no longer yours
to claim: how that sky becomes leaden and brackish when
someone steals its leash and turns its teeth on you.
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“Somewhere” Published in Special Edition of Poetry Super Highway Weekly

Tuesday, April 21 is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), and Poetry Super Highway published a special issue this week to commemorate this. My poem, “Somewhere”, appears in this issue of PSH Weekly. You can read “Somewhere” at:
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppa/ppa603b.html#fp10

I also read this poem on the April 19th edition of Poetry Super Highway Live. To hear the poem and to listen to April’s edition of the show, please visit:


http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/04/19/April-2009-Worlide-Open-Reading

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