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An Altogether Different Slumber

By Eric Robert Nolan

An Altogether Different Slumber

I dream in ones and zeros,
in an ease of dormancy,
within the midnight dim.

Language confounds me at dawn –
I wake with ideology,
convictions trailing my lips, trailing
from my mouth’s corner
like a line of blood on the sheets.

The window’s dialectic light
falls across concepts.
In a non-nocturnal, notion-laden, altogether
different slumber,
all the stinging abstract
words are nightmares.







© Eric Robert Nolan 2017


First published by Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine, June 25, 2017


Article © Eric Robert Nolan. All rights reserved.
Published on 2023-03-13
Image(s) are public domain.
2 Reader Comments
Sheila Mary Porter
03/25/2023
12:37:13 PM
Wow, that hit me between the eyes! Very moving and poignant Eric ☮️
Eric Robert Nolan
03/16/2024
11:14:15 AM
Thank you so much, Sheila! :-)
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