I favor
myself a
specious
presence,from the
logic
exempt I
am choking
smoking
theparadox
that fills
my mouth
here
nor there
am I
neithereither but
somewhere,
in the
ether the
echo emittedfrom the
beating of
a moth’s
wings, eons
off in the
foreground,
forewarned
for I amterrible and
in a mirror
where I
see myself
only,
intangible
holy and
dripping
blood from
this heart-
felt sleeve.
“A Flower Press,” - May 2012 Self Portrait by Joshua Robert Long (joshuarobertlong.com)