micromania
3 am
dread’s thread
taught as a garrote
flesh beset
by fret contorting
heart’s thump, pharyngal lump
neck-stem’s knot
pills and more pills
tinctures, teas, hypnotic
soundtracks, rain
meditations probing
mind’s peculiar pain
the phantasmagoria
of the febrile brain
- © Michele Seminara 2022
Michele is a Sydney poet, editor of on-line literary journal "Verity La", and author of "Suburban Fantasy" (UWP, 2021). She is currently enduring a bout of COVID-19 whose febrile symptoms inspired this poem.
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