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.
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Written on January 05, 2024

Submitted by hollingsworthheidi on February 06, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AB XXA X BXXX XXXX X XXXXA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 604
Words 116
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 1, 4, 4, 1, 5

Heidi Hollingsworth

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