"Nightclub" by Jesse Ferguson

E-zine 1
May 2005

Soul Foraging:
Searching for self

"After the Fact"

"Night Club"

Short Stories
Essays
Art and Photography
Poetry


Nightclub

dense wall of writhing
flesh, hits you
                   a hot tsunami

the reptilian brain
licks itself
        into power
              creeps from out
its ancient burrow
beneath the cerebellum
grips the mind with
      keen claws
          of pent-up instinct

you drown in images
    of perfect limbs
curves destined for limbo
faces you won’t
           even remember
                        wanting to