Moving in the Direction of Normal
Here I am, if celestially removed from you, empowered through the Lionsgate Portal of the stars, through these fleeting minutes’ Persied shower under waxing gibbous barley moon, too fast, too soon, I am a solo meteor you might have missed but didn’t, he who caught my glimpse— you witnessed in one quick heavenly flash at season’s time to flood Amazon and Nile: my light—call it a higher vibrational spiritual being across thousands of sky miles, unfathomable time zones on Earth, and the lives of our cosmic bodies bright, my third eye winks in August night in hours as your Sirius rises; one brief life spirals out. for Joe Craig
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Karla Linn Merrifield has had 800+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the newly released full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. She is currently at work on a poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars; the book is slated to be published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY).
Photo by Leonardo Yip.
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