Stationary 1
Paralysed, gripped by fear.
All my worries are abstract.
In contrast, they are still unclear.
Turn over my head.
Stay in slumber.
Untested.
Tossing, turning.
Jason Ridpath
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Paralysed, gripped by fear.
All my worries are abstract.
In contrast, they are still unclear.
Turn over my head.
Stay in slumber.
Untested.
Tossing, turning.
Jason Ridpath's "Stationary 1" reads like a night of bad sleep. The speaker is frozen, gripped by fear, yet the worries behind it have no clear shape. They call them "abstract," and then add that they are "still unclear," so the fear has nothing solid to push against.
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