It's only natural for the sane man to sublimate his animal response to the horrors of the waking world into something manageable, such as art.

              - Laird Barron

 

blocked

story wavers
words shimmer
  i reach but cannot grip

sense remains
sense prevails
              i give up

words go back in single file
along the bleak marches
all the way back into
that dark country
of the unimagined