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Angels Twitter

A Poem Exploring Social Media and Trauma

By Christopher MonkPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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Angels Twitter

Is wreckage proof of survival?

Scattered about this way and that

twisting and protruding across

a blackened landscape.

Can it be put back together?

It ain’t a toy train set, you know.

Anyway, we don’t have the plans

never mind the know-how.

There’s a heaviness around

sucking down the air with it

pulling now once sturdy legs

into quicksand.

Are words enough to rescue

a soul from a sludgy mass?

A mess of straining hope in

clotted arteries

through which he barely breathes

spikes slipping consciousness

to hark a word or three:

don’t give up

the angels sing right now

twitter from hymn sheets

across the ethereal:

don’t give up!

sad poetry
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About the Creator

Christopher Monk

I'm best known for my work as a medievalist scholar (The Anglo-Saxon Monk, Sodom in the Anglo-SaxonImagination). But recently I've branched out into poetry. And trauma is where I'm starting. You can see more at The Archaeology of Trauma.

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