Poem of the Week (10 August 2010) - Purging Myself with a Poem

This poem can be found at:

"The Cosmic Word Laboratory"

Cosmos Cami

Purging Myself with a Poem
an explanation to Andrew

I yank out the pain with a well-chosen word
Scrubbing under my nails with
exclamation points, pushed together
like bristles of a brush
I wipe the dirt (hurt) off my shoulders
first held after first kiss
when the mire first consumed me
The lower case i sheds its dot, the tear that
breaks up the rust on my finger
I shower my soul with the words that I write
banishing the dust of your
breath from my hair
The water is the poem that shakes off my back
I am not it is filled with what was
me and him and him and him anymore

Now everything is clean


~ Cami

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