Poetry

The Cut by Ellen Donbeck

0 Comments 24 June 2009

Be to it
To describe you and me, in anguish
Gulit
Seeking higher landscapes with
Better Air
Where I feel undeserved
And it’s better you know
I am

Where you breathe calm, holding
My hand
Where you sit, relaxed
Breathing deeply
Transfering tension
In smoke streaming fingertips
Staring in my direction

Noise,
The noise that has no
Hourly Pay for
Seconds are truthful
And beautiful
None of changes anything
But this

This thought that lingers
And grows
Digging my thumbs into my thighs
I laugh, as the universe restrains me
And demands that I move forward

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- who has written 21 posts on the Whiskey Dregs.

Ellen Donbeck is a playwright, originally from Nashville TN. Ellen has composed a number of works, mostly plays and short stories performed in and out of the U.S. Avid traveler, she finds her inspiration in the cities she visits, cultures that challenge her thoughts and ideas. Ellen was introduced to the Whiskey Dregs by Carlos Detres in a beautiful conversation about free writing. Exploring this stream of consciousness, she threw the format she is so inclined to use out the window and simply never took the pen off the paper. The writing she contributes to the whiskey dregs is unlike her work in her career, and she’s thankful for the outlet and the freedom…

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