Friday, June 3, 2011

the bell jar

There's just so much the shrink knows about you.
Only as much as you divulge.
Rest,
you can compress and box up in tightly shut containers
to blow open
only when you need them to knock you back to life.
Keep the lid tightly shut on it for now.

1 comment:

  1. I forgot to mention this in my mail but twice now as I've been writing/editing a poem I've found you posting a poem on the same theme. Perhaps we are all writing the same poem.

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