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  Corey Mesler has had work  published in numerous online and print journals.  He has been a book reviewer, fiction editor, university press sales rep, grant committee judge, father and son. With his wife he owns Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.  


Winter 2006

Table of Contents - Vol. II, No. 4

Poetry    Essays    Fiction    Book Notes & Reviews

 

Corey Mesler

 

Return of the Incubus

My old foe, insomnia
returns like
a scythe,
my old philhelene.
The middle of the night,
the attenuated
hours, tight
like catgut, like a single
beam of light.
And that light is both
my eyes and
my sight.
My old foe, insomnia
grins his
death-grin. I act like I
recognize him,
from years past, years past.
I act like
I don’t mind his bedeviling,
his horrid calm.

 

© Corey Mesler

Poetry    Essays    Fiction    Book Notes & Reviews

   
     

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