Squatting on a rock, meditating, searching for a metaphor, a medicine for my migraine. I look up to the sky. Sun shards pierce my eye and trigger my muse. My migraine. Her thoughts swell my brain; her feelings flood my blood. As her anvil presses down on my right optic nerve, words squeeze and splat out of my eye onto the paper. Turds of clay.
She tightens my occiput, stretches my scalp inward, sideways and out again like a moustached fat lady in black chiffon and strong B.O., heaving as she moans, while rolling pizza dough, scraping pointing fingernails along my right earlobe, midwife coaching at that gaping hole.
She burns my neural pathways, slashes and burns through neurofibrillary tangles and webs. Forgotten pain lashes out of blazing woods and brews in the oceans of soup steaming in me.
I ride her vertiginous waves, up and down, through crest and trough, as plots climax then drop, over and over, my stomach turning inside out until I fear my head will pop from all this conflict and tension she creates.
When I cannot bear the aches she releases, I try pills, tinctures, balms and elixirs. She then recedes, painting landscapes blue and red; horn and fiddles dancing horas around my mother's bed; drunken dybbuks whispering ditties in my head.
Migraine, I would like to banish you forever! But without your passion, hair falls limply onto the page, rootless without stories. How can I give up such fervour?