Mass and Matter

Words on paper

Flicker

Light giving source

A figment

Chased one moment

To the next-

Dark text vanishing

To cleared page

In confusion’s flood

As dark spots

Erupt in peripheral

As though existence

Was never questioned

A sure thing-

Spoken allowed

Lost in space,

Exit lips

To be caught by dust

Pulled away

To land far-

Their meanings twisted

Tumbled and shaken

Poured over ice

And swallowed

Empty calories

Stored on hips

And behind eye socket-

Only methods watched

Movements retained

To create a meaning

From the ingredients tossed-

The truth of the matter

Was the moving mass

The physical element

Painted there

By biological being

The sweat- or lack of-

Created in solitary moment

When the truth needed

To make itself known-

The decision of the lack

Of space

The lack of fulfillment

The ultimate reason

For the severed cord

And the words rubbed out

By an eraser already stubbed

From years of expectations

Thwarted by action.

Katrina Thornley is a nature poet and novelist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!

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