Artist Frank Gibson
Response
Guilty
By Ray Sharp
Inspiration piece
I woke this morning from a dream
in which I was holding something round
in my palms, vague and undefined,
squeezing it into a small pill I could fit
on my tongue, but when I tried to swallow,
it expanded to its full size and stuck in my throat.
This pill is memory, I thought, something
I cannot swallow or toss away. As I drifted
back to sleep, I thought of yesterday’s walk
in the woods, how the red pines creaked
in the west wind and reminded me of hairs
stiff on the back of an angry dog’s neck,
and of the words I heard spoken – as a writer
I am often guilty of not knowing what to say.
Inspiration Piece
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