Cold Storage

 

Cold storage

 

 

I locked my heart

in a steel drawer

have no damn

use for it

anymore

for anything

other than

a curio

relic

museum piece

stuck away

in an old

file cabinet

what pumps

the hydraulic

fluid now

through rusty pipes

sticky gate valves

silent chambers

cold as winter

is made of

brass

all nuts and bolts

levers

pistons

and pulleys

a tinker toy

machine

in a clockwork

universe

I visit my old

flesh and blood

now and again

just to read

the secret

messages

it scrawls

inside

the walls

of its metal

tomb

 

Joseph M. Felser

 

 

Joseph M. Felser is a professor of philosophy on the faculty of Kingsborough Community College/CUNY in Brooklyn, NY where he has taught since 1997. His areas of interest include consciousness studies, religion, mythology, and depth psychology. He is the author of two non-fiction books, The Way Back to Paradise and The Myth of the Great Ending, as well as numerous articles that have appeared in both scholarly and popular journals. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia. He recently began writing poetry.