Surrender to the Pose: Prose Poem

Saturday Poetry Prompt: revise a favourite line

J.D. Harms
Scrittura
Published in
3 min readDec 10, 2022

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Photo by DAVE NETTO on Unsplash

I have not lain awake all night on
purpose. Whether peaks or valleys, the air
hangs haunting,
consuming. In the corner, disparate shadows
declare their love
for me: hollow, decadent, sinning — and there’s
no break

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J.D. Harms
Scrittura

Former hairstylist, perpetual philosophy student, swallowed by poetry, writing, ideas