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SLEEPING NAKED ALONE short poem in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. The Genghis Lotus poems are hosted at two locations, genghislotus.com and zenvirus.com/genghis-lotus/. Webmaster for both sites is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.
"Skinship" is a Japanese term which denotes social touching in the context of the family, for example while in the bath together. |
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The hours have bones. The apocalypse alarm clock Is waiting to catch me asleep. But there is no sleep, not here, Not this far into the unimaginable, This far into the realm Of soul-twisting stress. I am mortally weary. And mortal. Asleep at last! And, shocked by the knowledge, Awake .... Alone in the turning fan, In the layered air, I have no true skinship with anyone but ghosts. |
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