Here is the third of my contributions to Nicky Morton’s Transformations, a reworking by several poets of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
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Tiresias
I’m tired.
Don’t talk to me.
The headaches are worse.
Real blinders.
They’re particularly bad
when I’m trying to get dressed in the morning.
I can’t think.
Can’t tell if I’m holding a shirt or a skirt.
I can’t explain it.
I’m living a half life,
between one thing and another. Nothing feels right.
I haven’t had an erection in months.
Whenever the room darkens further I see
a mirror cracking,
a face trapped
in its deadly geometry.
Don’t talk to me.
James Knight 
I love this piece :D. Love it’s modernness and the shirt or skirt moment. Feels like it is delving into a place where masculinity has become confused and speechless, love it.
Thanks very much! I really appreciate those comments. J
As fractured and image drenched as always.
Love the recurring reflection motifs in all your work.
Cheers Kneel! Praise indeed, coming from the creator of the Mirror Lord himself!