losing our grip on purpose

By D.W. Baker

Manic                       Depressive

brain bomb                  brain tomb

fast lane                     contemplate

five songs                  dead weight

autoplayed                        costume

gravitate                     heavy moon

magnify                         frame rate

pilot flame                       joy delay

flashing lights            panic room

warning signs           starve house

rapid speech                   crash car

credit lines                 hidden debt

gasoline                     trickle down

wild burn                       carve skin

scorched earth              trial death

 

D.W. Baker (he/him) is a submerging poet from St. Petersburg, Florida. His work appears in Identity Theory, Corporeal Lit, The Institutionalized Review, and Modern Haiku, among others, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. He reads for several magazines including Variant Lit, and recently edited the collection “GOD/CORPSE: writing on the bipolar body” for The Circus Lit.