This is the poem about the dream that inspired my drawing A hungry ghost. I have another drawing and poem that should be posted soon, and which also come from that sleeping mind-trip. Please stay tuned ...
Trapped ghost
By Francis Scudellari
Raised. On a mirrored slab
inch by inch he glides, spins
up, pulling against straps,
un-willing what binds him,
slow propels him toward
thrice blinking, blurred halos,
the whir of saw-tooth gears,
uncanny steel fingers
bent posed, purposeful:
his many-armed surgeon...
Cuts. His half-conscious mind
knowing but not feeling
the sting of numbed pink flesh;
laser pin pricks tracing
patterns, deep-stenciled shapes
to draw from dead tissue
a thick-brow, brown golem.
Its emerged-eye stare fixed
on the steel-teat mother
as she spills her static...
Milk. Grabby-claw hands, take
greedy-fang bites, feasting
on pulsed bits beamed across
an electric blue stream.
This raw, imagined food
real enough to entice
its once bone-gripped belly
to red-swell large, and fill
a machine carved gap, where
his trapped ghost is growing...
6 comments:
Very clever. Really made me shudder. I want to read it again and again.
Wow....
That's pretty vivid. I like the room it leaves for people to supply their own images, while still giving a good idea what's going on; the nightmare a person creates is always more scary than the one she hears.
Well done Francis...conjured up images of revulsion. I have to agree with Ravyn ... the nightmare a person creates is always more scary than the one they read. THAT is a testament to your writing my friend.
Golem...golem? Where did I hear that before? LOL As always truly unique and excellent my friend.
~JD
Gory, seems very dangerous. very vividly pictured. Brilliant!
@Jolenesiah Thanks
@Jakill That's the best reaction possible :).
@Ravyn The odd thing was, it actually wasn't a nightmare, or at least it didn't have that affect on me. I was the observer in the dream not the participant, so it was like watching a movie. There's also a bit more to the story, which I'll write up later.
@JD Thanks! My mind can sometimes create some very vivid nightmares for itself :).
@Jena I hope not too gory :).
I didn't take it as gory at all. What it meant to me is how the process of creativity comes about. Words drip from anywhere and ingress our consciousness in strange ways. Yours is a bit more enigmatic than most. Very cool poetry:)
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