Sunday, April 14, 2013

Acrostics, HAWMC 12


Hey, this is super late, isn't it? I've gone from having early posts to having late posts. Because I just got home to Homer this night, and it's weird. I haven't slept in this cabin for well over two months, am going to have to reacclimate to outhouse/hauling water. I'm a little wired and tweaked.
 Write a health acrostic for your condition, hashtag, or username! (acrostic = a poem where every letter of a word serves as the first letter of a word or phrase)
Funny story--in middle school, we had just started playing lacrosse. A few weeks later in English class we did acrostics. The next day, someone who hadn't been paying attention was getting grilled. Among other things, she was demanded to define an acrostic. She said "It's a stick you play on the field with." I can never hear the word acrostic without thinking of that. But what the heck word do I choose as my acrostic word? Which condition? Or which part of my formal scroll of diagnosis?
Alien in this body, alien in this world, I said
No                                                                                                                                                 
Over and over, too much or too many of me, too                                                                   
Rowdy, too much body; I said Alien no body,                                                                       
Evanescent, ever at the point of                                                                                                  
eXit through the liminal cell-gate to become                                                                              
Illuminated, illusory, not limited by physical positioning                                                          
Acting without favor or appetite
Because sometimes I am huge hugening the world and other times                                         
I am suffocated under the world contracting down from outside me                                   
Perhaps one day I'll learn to quit                                                                                         
Opposing pole with pole; stall at                                                                                                 
Luminous liminal cell-gate                                                                                                   
Acting without favor or appetite, all fall stall                                                                         
Ravishing evanescence.
And I'm going to leave it at that because otherwise I'll get up and do something dangerous.

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