August 7, 2009

Jim Murdoch


OLD HAUNTS


No, I am not a ghost
but I could not say with
the same certainty that
I am not a lost soul.



THE END OF ALL ILLUSIONS

Yes, even granite men
melt in the rain in time.



ON CONSCIOUSNESS

The pain was not great.
No, I could not say that,
but it was constant
like the clanging bell of truth
or the persistence of memory.

Descartes was so wrong.



BECKETT

Even extinguished candles
hold some slight warmth
for an evanescent time.

CP

Jim Murdoch lives in Scotland. Find out more about him here.

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