Lost Dimensions

Music once a refuge
now a trigger pulled 
by the piano’s high note

once a bath
the brain took to forget
all that could never be unseen

now glass thrown
to concrete, each shard
a needle piercing the drum.

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Tim Murphy (he/him) is a disabled, bisexual poet who is bedbound with Long COVID and ME. His writing explores chronic illness, disability justice, and our complex, tenuous relationship with the more-than-human world. Tim’s poetry appears in over a dozen literary journals, including Louisiana Literature, Gastropoda, Wordgathering, Writers Resist, and in the books, The Long COVID Reader (2023) and Songs of Revolution (2024). Instagram and Twitter (@brokenwingpoet).