Trauma Poems

Dislocations:
running over sharp stones,
arm dangling from the elbow,
flapping about like a scarf
in the wind.
it didn't hurt, then.

the way the voices pool,
collecting in the soul -
they didn't hurt, then.

oh, but had i killed
one thousand men ...
i might have the courage
to become one of them.

The way the voices pool,
a collection in the soul,
they didn't hurt, then.

Avoid saying, 'you'
even where credit is due,
when the voices come through:
they only hurt now,
when I think they're my own,
"You can never go home."
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