Issue 12
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Dave Ruslander
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Euclid's 466th Problem
Time, grinning, lapses,
the doors of my mind slam,
hallucinations bounce.
Off the wall,
dangling,
I hang.
Through antique glass,
distorted images
pain and nauseate me.
The lack of illumination
circumambulates.
All that I have learned from within
is locked away,
sealed up tight,
hidden.
I can offer nothing to those
from without.
There is no dawn
to this dark night;
it remains
three in the morning.
~Dave Ruslander
*Note: Euclid published 465 problems
Dave Ruslander lives in rural Virginia. True to the sweeping-generalization that southerners are slow, he didn't get around to writing until he was fifty. Since then he's written poetry, short stories, and one novel.
His work has been published in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Green Tricycle, Cenotaph Pocket Edition, Retrozine, Womensbeat, MiPo, and many other print
and digital publications. Email.
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