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5:00 am by D Kai Wilson, editor in Issue 1, Issues, Poetry

R–U–OK?

Yeah–Yeah

I txt back

before adding another dozen lines to my

essay. There’s a scrap of paper beside me

I’m scrawling lines of a poem that are singing

to me, from the cheap seats, insidious, in my head.

As an afterthought, I realize, I need to tell him something else.

So, I send another

I–haven’t–slept–4–days

Frenzied, exhilarated, deeply awkward.

I’m falling. The essay has turned taffy, my fingers are now faltering.

Deep. Deeper. Its dark there. I’m not writing any more.

Not able to. I’m numbly aware - I’m trying to bury it.

Ignoring it. Picking up the pieces of the tune. Coaxing it back

But its snagged.

This is. This could be - is this? - BAD(?)(!)

Its even inserting clauses,

all those trips and traps.

My head is screaming. Yelling. Insane, echoing laughter, from the gasping deep behind me.

I feel it. Meltdown looms.

A breaker’s wave

half piping me towards digital oblivion.

I’m afraid, terrified. I know this is a crash, and I don’t want to

LOSE

the epiphany

Lame, but its mine, and I’ve been charged with sharing.

But I’m in the back of the theater, in the back of my head. Lecture hall HUGE.

I’m in the back row. I can hear myself

only a whisper

haven’t slept

its been four days.

D Kai Wilson is the award winning poet responsible for 12 Days of Rain. Her poetry was included in the Eppie award winning ‘Oestara Anthology of Pagan Poetry‘. When not at University studying for a BA(hons) in Creative Writing, and running after her kids, she can be found editing for Scribe and Quill, Digitalis Obscura, and writing articles at PublishHacks.