Corey Mesler

The Sickness

In the 2 a.m. fog
it comes
like a roaring in
one’s center,
a brute
bent on devouring
all the confidence
gained through
persistence and
steady gravity;
it
comes unbidden
and
I have learned awfully to
not blame myself.

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Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South, and he owns a bookstore in Memphis.

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