Distorted Sensory

Stephen Schatzl
Lit Up
Published in
1 min readFeb 4, 2020
Photo by Andrei Lazarev on Unsplash

film muted
soft buzz

the thought of the length
of a minute
and width of a year

a moment which
seemed to hang too long

an ache
stung throat

clouded desire

fatigue pumped
the heart slow
drawing euphoria

light stretched
streams
blurred vision

no smell

“But, it’s just a moment,” she said.

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Stephen Schatzl
Lit Up
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“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature.” ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending