The archaeology of anxiety
the archaeology of anxiety
found the fear of death inside the vase
plugged up and out of reach
until relentless curiosity
spilled thanatophobia
into the atmosphere
where it circulated
across the continents
drifting down as dust
the accretion of our collective fear
guided by gravity
floating back to the center of things
where we all meet up again
eventually
- © Robert Bulman 2021
Robert Bulman is a professor at Saint Mary's College of California, where poetry seems to hang in the air like smoke. Born in the American Midwest, he grew up in Southern California and then drifted north. He is an emerging middle-aged poet living and working in Northern California
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