Posted by Atticus on August 11, 2004, at 8:37:26
In reply to poem...Backwards, posted by malthus on August 10, 2004, at 20:03:31
I can really relate to what you describe: the sense of having a dark, secret, shadow-self -- one that others rarely or never see, either due to efforts to conceal it or other peoples' inability to perceive it. If you've read enough of the post-1996 story cycle in my poems posted here, you know that most of my friends knew about my illness, but my family and co-workers were kept blissfully ignorant through my own efforts. I used to visualize the illness as this enormous, midnight-black wolf with blazing red eyes stalking restlessly around in my head. I would sometimes wonder, if people who didn't know about the illness looked closely enough into my eyes, whether they'd glimpse the wolf. Atticus
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