Poems: similes, metaphores, sensory details...

Detail of Hieroglyph, a hammered copper sculpture by O. V. Shaffer in the courtyard of the Madison Public Library on West Mifflin Street . The sculpture has been there since the building opened in 1964.

POEM

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Insomnia struggled to fix a painting, the painting of a life,
Some traces that hurt…

First, it installed a screen: the landscape seen through the bedroom window
But it couldn’t heal the open wounds.

Second, it tried again with natural warm drops directly from it´s own eyes.

Impossible to erase the scars!

Marisol