Tag: death

• Cancer

  The city breathes deep in its asbestos lungs and sucks me in, and with each breath smoke billows through the air. Arteries pump thousands across highways in their cages of debt, and with each pulse shivers crawl up the cracked smoke stacks lining the heart of it all. This city is a dying animal clawing…

  Nic Jean

  August 28, 2013

  Poetry

  breathing, cancer, city, death, dying, fracking, great lakes, highway, lake, life, New York, poem, poetry, syracuse, upstate, urban

• A Death Rattle is a Song Synonymous for Migraines.

  My mind feels like it’s melting into a puddle behind my eye. A throbbing vein left of my temple beats a song softly crying why.   My vision blocked by blurry lights closes off into the dark and my head falls in and out of sync with my palpating heart.    My ears ring the melody a solid one note drone.…

  Nic Jean

  March 6, 2013

  Poetry

  ache, aoura, aura, blinding, death, dyeing, head ache, illusion, loud, migraine, migrane, music, pain, poem, poetry, sick, song, throbbing, tired