Dialectical Float Therapy (DFT)



enter for sensory satiation
the lucidity of salinity.

look past your eyelids to where
the new cranial nerve is formed.
where vagus and optic rewire
to produce soul vision.

remind yourself to blink.

where you become a blue lily pad of mercury
in the Galilean Thermometer of your life.
where stains only 1100 pounds of epsom salt
could dissolve.

where your buoyant vessel is propelled by the tides
of circadian rhythm
and the tidal volume
of your next sober breath.

the only constant is change.

please fill my cochlea with enough fluid
from the oval window
to vibrate my prefrontal cortex
back
online.

About this poem

I wrote this poem about my experience with addiction, recovery, and float therapy.

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Written on December 27, 2023

Submitted by hollingsworthheidi on December 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AB XXXA X BXXX XXXX X XXXXA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 606
Words 118
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 1, 4, 4, 1, 5

Heidi Hollingsworth

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  • pyxx.en
    | Vessel in crucible of calm; |

    | Immersed. Ones solace audience |

    | Whispered: follow shed eidetic sparks in orphic abandon |

    | Corridorics' spiril; nigh divine illum |

    | Suspended trieb'ng breath totenin-sel to ones' tethered feather's sigh |

    | Gentle. the cradle: a mnemonic lullaby of the self |

    | Transcend! Dissolve! In azure dollhouse cicadic anew |

    | Cycles again: belong to aware joyful you |

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