Anon Baisch
Faces
into the smothering
nothing :: we dream of
curtains toned in cold
darkness :: shadows of
sunsets to warm the insomniac
childbirth :: I
expected there would be more
crying but instead the bodies
awake at night breathe the pungent
silence and dream of
nothing :: the small
blackening of footprints :: the panicked
instruction and the rough
hand pushing into
a body into a body ::
death is something more
residual on the pages given
to the edge of
the room
in slow pausing, unread
sheets :: I did not know
the dream would
start
with such clarity :: and
so quickly clearer :: and
so quickly clearer ::
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Anon Baisch is currently a data analyst working in the semiconductor industry and lives in Saitama, Japan. Anon’s poems have been published most recently in OxMag, Levitate, and forthcoming from Waxing & Waning and Second Factory. Anon’s collection w/Ashes is forthcoming from April Gloaming.