Heath Brougher- A Poem

Heath Brougher attended Temple University. He recently became the new poetry editor of Five2One Magazine. He has published two little books titled “A Drought of Ichor” and “2” (Green Panda Press). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Yellow Chair Review, Of/with, Mobius, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Main Street Rag, BlazeVOX, *82 Review, Gold Dust, Otoliths, MiPOesias, Gloom Cupboard, Foliate Oak, Mad Swirl, eFiction India, Dark Matter Journal, Harbinger Aslylum, and elsewhere.

 

 

 

Sleeper

 

Surrounded by solitude,

selfimposed, secluded from society,

breathing dust in this dustbreathing

roomful of ruined air and smoke,

I slept away the day, body inert,

living in dreams, dream the wholesome

day away to thrive and anger in dreams,

to conquer, to sleep the day,

motionless body, mind ablaze in different realms,

twenty-two hours a day I sleep through

even this gorgeous blooming of summer

and what’s come to be called reality.