From the book The Immediate and No Sooner, 2021.
Shadorma 305.
I lay down
on the bed my head
swimming a
slow backstroke
up and down a neon pool
oh my head. My head.
7/23/20
Shadorma 306.
How tender
your soft precise lips
smiling red
and vicious
caress the words you send to
skewer gentle souls
7/23/20
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
I’m probably going to jinx myself – but I haven’t had a raging migraine for a couple years!! I link it to retirement – lost the pain in the butt and my biggest headache!
That is a brilliant description of that type of searing headache. I also think you have done an excellent job of conveying the type of person who appears superficially one way but is actually quite the other.
Thank you. Headaches, I don’t get them too often but of course I want to lie down when I do get one. And I think there are a lot of people who seem soft and gentle and it’s all fake.