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Blue Bottle Journal
poetry with sting

Night Routine

7/2/2021

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by Courtney Thomson 

I don’t know how to be. In the room,
with a bed too great for my body.

Rest my arm around my waist
to feign company, until it numbs. Press
two fingers against the vein to feel
a pulse. Whisper goodnight
aloud to hear the word.

Slide fingers into my lone
hand’s embrace; I need to find
solace in a world of four walls and bleached
sheets. I swing in this restless trapeze
waiting for sleep to catch
me but I’m tangled in memory’s net.

My mother said, I need to let the past
go but I can’t control where my mind
parks; I am only a passenger.

Courtney Thomson is a QUT Creative and Professional Writing graduate. She has special interest in poetry and personal essay. Her work has appeared in Voiceworks, Concrescence and Woolf Pack.
1 Comment
Mathew
8/3/2021 05:52:56 pm

Nice line breaks. Dislocating.

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