
Author Archives: Timothy P. Schilling
Blue tower

Tripping on the lowest stair
Why go anywhere
when you can see it all
already, the whole way
up and the view from the
top? The circling stone,
the light, the river
and the gargoyles.
The sun sets sooner
here below.
Withdraw, man, unknock!
Take your meat at safety’s table.
Station at night

Prognosis

?
This wraps it all up neatly,
doesn’t it –
the hook that lets you
off the hook
?
Escape

Cornered

Breathless
I’ve run on ahead of where my
mind was, and am looking around now
at
You’ll know where you are when
you’ve been there, but until then
Standing still I can feel it all catching up –
or is it something new coming on?
Nothing, nothing, a deer’s eyes
emerge from the fog.
Repose
