Recluse

By Paul Mason Leiby, Jr

Poetry inspired by and in the style of Emily Dickinson, this collection is the closest thing to the poetry of Emily Dickinson short of reincarnation and will take you through her whimsical treatment of nature, life and death, breathing new life for those who make her their muse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Mason Leiby, Jr
• Release date: Apr 10, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224533497

Paul Mason Leiby, Jr

Paul Mason Leiby Jr is the author of nine experimental poetry books: "Lofi My Life," "Sleeping Every Sycamore Standing," "How the Bakery Pronounces Drab," "Of the Body Air," "They Walked Until Autumn," "Goodbye, the Unused Portion Hello," and others. P. M. Leiby brings to bear a love of life and death encoded in the social and mental struggles. He holds an M.S. in psychology from Purdue University.

Book preview

I.

Some are born to make it through.

Others leave an enormous ditch

where their memory is stored for others to view.

None can tell which place is which.

One realm is slept through, the other alert.

One decreases altitude, the other decreases dirt.

Both realms have epitaph and an oracle.

But only one is phantasmagorical.

II.

To think is to die if you know the thought

in the little tiny place ideas are adorned.

They are pupils dependent who life has taught

to make an image where you are formed.

In here you dwell yet only a guest

in all your senses speciation

imaginary as storms stirred from breath

until the mirage of your mental vacation

can’t discern what is from what’s left

and become in whisps a spiritual destination.

III.

How much longer I’ll live is a curious number.

One thousand perhaps, but closer to one.

It may be till noon to fancy such slumber.

Frightened of being makes it a pitiful sum.

What hours are left blissfully unknown

as you pass the geraniums