Meetings with Insomnia

By Anya Graf

Meetings with insomnia is a collection of poems that document the authors personal experiences in life. Both unforgiving and accepting, Meetings with insomnia is treated like an open diary in which the reader is allowed to view the inner workings in the author’s brain.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669824169

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Rev. date: 05/18/2022

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take a seat

stay a while

i have lots to stay

Contents

blue walls

m.p. 7:24pm

An unfamiliar feeling

Curl yourself around me

Elephant’s memory

falling eyes/tired tears

Four hours of silence

Holes

just some unwanted truth

nice to meet you

Pastry smothered thoughts

Peach fuzz

Peanut butter kisses

Reconciliation

s.c.

slightly sprinkled with seasonal depression

Take a second to remember

The chronicles of an undecided whore

Tickles of faintness

Two slices of banana bread

Un-chewed

Unspoken words

Where’s the leak?

blue walls

soak up some of this hurt

                        your rag is crying            sometimes you just have to let yourself feel this crap

50lbs of frustration right on your temples        stop…..

you need to get a hold of yourself            life sucks and so do you

but nobody cares

put a placemat at the table just for your brain            stay a while        face to face

bruises on bruises

                            skin peeling