Rebekah Gamble Poems

This is all I need,
right here.
Cold stable chair,
cold smooth table,
...

I hate all of this.
You show me
what I never knew, never understood.
Tell me,
...

They believed in color
and burning candles
with flames dancing
on ceilings like skies.
...

I had a silent conversation
with the shadow of a statue.
It questioned me with very forgettable words
and I told it 'I like both Rilke and Neruda.'
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I close my eyes so it can fill me.
It flows through my nostrils,
pleasantly drowning me.
It is for me the executioner.
...

In walking down a beaten dirt road
I felt as though the world were turning
away from me, beneath me in a circle,
to keep me searching.
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The people live in eternal night,
so when the sun goes to bed,
they don't always realize that it is dark.
The streetlight is lonely tonight.
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Poetry died with my father.
His death marked my first time in a Catholic church.
I remember the man nailed up high,
looking more like a beaten homeless man
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Inside me, there is fire.
I know this, because I remember it.
I used to believe in things.
It is cold as I sit out the night on my doorstep.
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At dusk, I hate the locusts
that make the sound
like the darkness is laughing.
It is not good
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