Where Sleep Lives
by PAUL LOJESKI
On waking, the feeling
of climbing rapidly
from deep beneath
the ground, of coming
up and up against my
will rushed upon me
till daylight flooded
the startled eye.
Then a memory
not just of dreaming
but of seeing something
other worldly clearly
rose momentarily only
to be lost quickly
and completely
in the sun’s early
morning glare.
Staring at the clock,
I was dumbfounded
by the time,
by the evidence
of hours gone
readily missing,
hours of existence
passed through
that unknown
landscape,
that churning
mystery poised
to grab the next
wandering soul,
to drag that pilgrim
without mercy
into a place
we cannot name.
Being Simplistic
by PAUL LOJESKI
The dawn sky
sends the same
message day
after day,
the color
of magic
spreading
through
the vision.
Here, it
says, here
is the reason
you are here.
A Stateless State
by PAUL LOJESKI
The safety net
in America
is called
the morgue.
What My Little Girl Sees
by PAUL LOJESKI
Killers
pissing
on corpses
piled up
on history’s
broken bone,
this forever
of fighting
bleeding
like falling
red leaves
in an endless
autumn.
Paul Lojeski was born and raised in Lakewood, Ohio and formally educated in the public schools there. He attended Oberlin College. His poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, ABZ, Right Hand Pointing and Counterpunch, and is forthcoming in Paumanok II, an anthology of Long Island poetry and photography. He lives with his wife and daughter in Port Jefferson, NY.
Paul can be reached at Plojeski@aol.com.
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