Karla Linn Merrifield

As My Husband Lies Dying

Karla Linn Merrifield

Conscience is our guide, whatever trappings we might choose to clothe it in. ~~Noam Chomsky

Daydreaming has become a lost art. Poetry is dead. My imagination gasps to escape.

Vivid images à la viciousness like viper-pit venom dripping down an IV line into my mind. Vacuity: On the Matthias YouTube Channel,

one of ten strange dollar-store items sent by viewers— tiny scented hot-sauce, taco, and tostada erasers for poor kids to choke on.

I’m trapped in the whack-job’s meme machine. Weather.com is calling for violent tweetstorms. Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies.

But then I turn my eyes to night’s summer sky, view fully the full Thunder Moon, my bright light.

Karla Linn Merrifield has had 1000+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the 2019 full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. Her newest poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars, was published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY). Karla now lives in Florida.