Challenge
Make Me Anxious
Title. Whether it's a mismatched title and body text, prose written to bring forward feelings of anxiety, an anxious poem, a stream of anxious thought - if you feel it will incite anxiety, I want to see it! Any style, any subject matter.
Ill at Ease
My fingertips are sore and red
Nails ripped too close to the root
I swallow and still it's stuck there
A phantom piece of hard, rough bread
Grating between my sternum and heart flesh
Every swallow is a reminder
Something lurks in the shadows I cannot see
My limbs begin to tingle
Spiderwebs of electric current running running running
From the crooks of my arms to the center of my palms
It hovers in the space above my hands
Generating heat only I can feel
And we cannot forget the breathing, the breathing!
In this moment
It's the most complex task of all