Neil Ellman- Two Poems

This Moment Now

Of a moment

I am

(you as well)

caught

in split-second

nano-uncertainty

trapped between

here & there

flesh & dust

between

“J’ & “L”

Venus & Jupiter

overtaken

by the past

I am lost

too slow

to catch

the future tense—

if this is life

(yours too)

I am confined

confined

between

heaven & hell.

Of Two Minds

I am of two minds

two brains

right hemisphere and left

one of logic

that sees you as you are

the other imagines

what I wish

two minds

engaged and disengaged

bored and interested

aroused, reposed

incapable of choice

confused by neurons

charging doubts

on your credit card—

it is you I want, I think,

but not just now.

Neil Ellman is a Best of the Net nominated poet living and writing in New Jersey.  His poetry appears in numerous print and online journals throughout the world, as well as in nine chapbooks, the most recent of which, Double-Takes, is available as a free PDF download at Fowlpox.tk.