Content Warning: Depiction of Death or Terminal Illness
Delusions
Jaspers has differentiated delusional perceptions,
Delusional ideas or notions and delusional awareness.
Mystifying the patient, apocalyptic endowed
A thought or memory passing through.
Conviction: gift of prophecy
Fallen from eyes. A king
Spoken from the pulpit
Florid, acute psycho-sis.
Charged with world-shaking knowledge,
A plague begun in a town nearby.
We all get to wear costumes!
The borderland traced disturbances,
Alterations in size, colour and brightness or contrast;
Temporal lobes; these in association
With apparitions
Form the concept of the lying primary.
Derealization (Gurney, 1969).
Spectator-
Ness within trees.
Flowers or by the countryside.
Psychic equivalents, cousins.
Delusional ideas or notions and delusional awareness.
Mystifying the patient, apocalyptic endowed
A thought or memory passing through.
Conviction: gift of prophecy
Fallen from eyes. A king
Spoken from the pulpit
Florid, acute psycho-sis.
Charged with world-shaking knowledge,
A plague begun in a town nearby.
We all get to wear costumes!
The borderland traced disturbances,
Alterations in size, colour and brightness or contrast;
Temporal lobes; these in association
With apparitions
Form the concept of the lying primary.
Derealization (Gurney, 1969).
Spectator-
Ness within trees.
Flowers or by the countryside.
Psychic equivalents, cousins.
About the Author
Jasper Glen is a poet from Vancouver, BC. He holds a BA in Philosophy and a JD. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Posit, NiftyLit, Streetlight Magazine, fauxmoir, Pinky Thinker Press, The Ekphrastic Review, The Antonym, and Island Writer Magazine.