Sophia Wilson
New Zealand

 

Photo © Chris Downer / Twelfth century headache / (cc-by-sa/2.0)

a ghost shrieks at the window,
threatens to break through,
shatter eye-cover.

throbbing fingers infiltrate
soft crevices;
neuronal mass pulsates.

knife twists, gristle-turning;
stoat gnaw,
rat’s claw.

mind summersaults to
snap-trap pain,
can’t let go its axon’s branch.

cerebral crevices convolute;
razors
replace thoughts.

vessel spasm,
vision tremble;
light jars, sound breaks,

eye inverts and
nausea heaves
like tidal rise.

intention leacher,
sight imploder,
plan thwarter, work blighter.

half the head is sucker-punched
while its counterpart
bears witness.

we talk of duration in days
and hours, but
hell is measured in aeons.

 

(Migraine>>hēmi-kranion=half-skull)

 

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SOPHIA WILSON has a background in Arts, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in, or are forthcoming in, Ars Medica, StylusLit, Poems in the Waiting Room NZ, Hektoen International, and elsewhere.

 

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