Collin Barber
Anti-Muse
Unable to sleep again tonight;
It's as if the tongue of madness
is scraping the crust of my mind.
Somehow I've tuned in
to a language that looks like
the mutter of clouds departing
as the sun burns holes in the sky,
but they're the whispers
of my anti-muse.
And as I deliriously gaze
into the concave night,
I discover that even
when I am unable to sleep,
I can still slip into a dream.
Bio
Collin Barber lives and writes in Memphis, Tennessee. Some of his work has appeared in various journals in print and on the world wide web. His book of short poems, The Devil is a Child, was published in March, 2014.