Dark Matter

By Curtis Ackie

Curtis Ackie is a young British-born novelist, short story writer and sometime poet, based in Zagreb, Croatia. His fiction is primarily concerned with the magic of dreams as escapism.
Dark Matter is his captivating collection of spellbound poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Curtis Ackie
• Release date: Apr 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476079752

Curtis Ackie

Curtis Ackie is a young British-born novelist, short story writer and poet, based in Zagreb, Croatia. His fiction is primarily concerned with the magic of dreams as escapism.

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Confines

Stasis

Rocking chair sway

Here I stand again

Glued to the highest point

Stuck once more at the zenith

Where lip presses firm against tile

Complicated elements

I have lost myself again

Silent at the pinnacle

Cool and snug at the summit

And I am unrecognisable and fractious and glib

Quarantine

To stand on the edge of a rock pool

and not actually jump in

To hold firm on the threshold

a voyeur refusing to enter

To eavesdrop on life itself

listening to all of its whispers

and unravelling all of its mysteries

But to never open up

and share the journey with others

Detached

Tubular heart

Cast-iron brackets,

Beside my redbrick wall of ascension

I have never seen you before

Do not recognise the