W. Doug Bolden
"The Night the Spirals Fell"
This poem has a "cuter" inspiration than a lot of mine. I was given a gift of a spiral inducing hole punch by a friend, and so I used to make little spiral cut outs that I would hang from my wall like streamers after linking them together. One night, the spirals fell down and I used the phrase "I guess this is the night the spirals fell." Around the same time, during the period I refer to still as the "Summer of Hell", I would often sit in bed and think about all the things that had went wrong that particular day. This combines those two ideas into one. Around the time of writing this, I would often work with spiral imagery and also would also work with chalk imagery (it shows up soon in the poem). The former was usually meant to represent life moving out of it's planned area while the latter refers to how temporary some words and ideas reall were.
in the black, the sounds of everyday
come out twice as loud, once from the
echo pangs off of night mist ears
where recoil and shadow sounds
reverberate, and once from edged mind
where knives replay that day and
you chalk carve the scene as though
it might be a crime and somebody
had to be a victim. on that night
the spirals fell, i laugh remember
and something like a joke, and a
sudden dream overtook me while
awake and (sliding) told me "I am you."
a slight taste in the back of
my throat said "This will not
be..." i was quite okay, even then.
on that night, the spirals fell
and it was plagues of manna,
blessed white clouds of some fat locust
blue, feathers sensation screaming
inside of me. there was a world
outside. there was time, falling
too. there was love, elsewhere.
there were dark and gentle whispers.
This poem written by W. Doug Bolden.
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