By: Bruce Levine

Standing atop a stairway
Five flights up
Figurative images
Revealing nothing
A dearth of language
Parsimoniously sifting
Like flour through a strainer
Paradoxical entries
Oxymorons
Fugitive from reality
Breathing life into cadavers
Frankenstein’s monster
Awakened
Yet not alive
Fledgling ideas
Devoid of an essence
Fighting for something tangible
Shadows of fruition
Fading like mist
Another empty page