Dennis L. Siluk's New Stories and Poetry: In Drunkenness (A Poem)

Dr. Dennis L. Siluk’s has published 72-International Book. He is a poet since twelve years old, a writer, Psychologist, Ordained Minister, Decorated Veteran from the Vietnam War, Doctor in Arts and Education, and Doctor Honoris Causa from the National University of Central Peru, UNCP. He was nominated Poet Laureate in Peru. One of his books, “The Galilean”, took Honorable Mention at the 2016 Paris Book Festival and received an award from the Congress of Peru, for his cultural writings.

Sunday, June 19, 2016

In Drunkenness (A Poem)

When I was drinking I was as a ship that had wandered beneath a stormy ebon moon—

In the morning, a disastrous sun bent sailor.

When fully awake from the night’s drunk, my head lay heaving. My temples like oaks, and my heart tremulous.

Forgetting all, save, I could not dream, if indeed I did?

I do recall how I became an unfeeling shadow, drinking beer to beer to beer, cigarettes one after another, as my mind went from realms to zones on stools in sour-smoky bars.

They were all windless evenings, repeated. One not so unlike the other: with perilous eyes of sleep.

I sought to fathom the gulf-enclosing earth, in a swirling gloom.

#5285/6-17-2016

Note: the author has been sober for 32-years.