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Scott C. Holstad Poet and Essayist

"life dreaming"

Issue/Publication: The Pittsburgh Quarterly



i am nothing but

bits of paper, grains

of sand pressed

     hot

          against

hard flesh, campfires

burning bright against

the still night.

     i am

man-flesh

human life

walking & dreaming,

twitching under the

noonday sun.

 

sometimes

i am hunger, i

am rain and all

things natural

and

i love and hate

with equal authority,

madness beneath the

cloud-pieces.