POETRY • 08.6.24

Write Conscious Poetry Challenge Series

PANOPTICON
Old calcaneus unable to stand
your form of shuffle
Leaking IQ points and molten gold
out of his left ear
Dull lurch in the stairwell
Dribbling a gel spit
Panopticon prison schematics
Forever held
in a rain lashed
tower of cracked grey ballast
To evaporate you;
The divine howl of my life