Grimy Spiritualist

Steven Clifford
2 min readJan 17, 2020

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Droplets plaster my scalp as my sight fuses to the shower’s sweating wall.

Asylum memories replay — transparently. Gliding steam coexists with whimsical madness. I

drop into a stranger’s contemplation, midstream, its beginning obscured, sabotaging my psyche’s compass, and my misplaced mind swarms with dyslectic street-signs. As a last resort,

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Steven Clifford

Clifford is a writer and poet from Long Island, NY. He’s “mentally Ill” but considers it a gift with consequences from a generous muse.