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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Shattered / Will Dockery
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:52:00 +0000
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> Shattered
>
> The seconds have piled up
> at the floor
> lost here in some other guy's past
> lying there
> with your seconds piled
> there went by a life
> untold
> unasked
> going by
> never caused and never traced
> the future never ever appears here.
>
> If some morning I wake
> here for you
> trying to find some reason to return
> if I see things denied
> I once defined
> a life just passed me by there
> slipped through my fingers
> everything here now is real
> so wait.
> That portion of the finish
> never comes.
>
> Now that the lights are going so low
> the dimming glow
> falls on my ego
> now that I'm falling
> into my morning
> here I am gazing into those
> reflector eyes
> morning light
> is blasting my head clean too.
> Morning's clearer
> I've been forgetting it.
>
> Your thoughts seem to stream
> like a highway
> dimming lights seem to streak
> like hitch-hikers.
> When does this dream end?
> When do I get on up the road?
> The light sped out
> like a fire-fly
> like gravestones
> never noticed
> never seen.
> Like marbles
> spilling from shattered minds.
>
> -Will Dockery / August 20 1976
>
> ***
> (Published March 1977 in the Carverlite, the Carver High School
> newspaper, Columbus Georgia)
>
> From:
> https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/shattered.html?m=1

Note:
This poem was written in 1976, almost 50 years before I read the Robert
Creeley poem with a similar opening line.

HTH and HAND.