Mark Meyer

A cyclothymic dialectic

…one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose…
     — Leonard Cohen

Chocolate or vanilla? Ones or zeds? North pole or south? Ah, Polarity (with a capital P)! The earth’s bipolar—could explain my vacillating ground states—elementary statistical psychomagnetic field theory. But it’s almost impossible to predict which pole will hold sway, where or when. Flip flop, flop flip. Up or down—then down is up? On one hand, it doesn’t really matter, I tell myselves. Yet, way over yonder, on the other hand……….

either yes or no
yet perhaps it's neither
quavering moon

"no blame" 
the same damn hexagram 
again and again 

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Note: Epigraph is from Leonard Cohen’s “Stories of the Street.” 

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About the Author

Mark Meyer is an artist, writer, former research biologist, originally from Texas, currently living in the middle of a lake in Washington state. He enjoys a great fondness for dogs, guitars, and elixirs. His artwork and poetry have somehow managed to get around here and there. He’s even picked up a few awards along the way.

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