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April 8, 2020
Chaoite – Day 8
Chaoite
Dark grey mass
Shock-metamorphosed
From meteorite
You abrade
Easily
Scale off memory of impact –
Your shell
Not so hard it crumbles
Not so vulnerable it shatters
Resilience a specimen of the long game
Polymorphous – a learned behavior for trauma
Crystals have such nice faces
In a family of diamonds
Sub-metallic luster
Your allotropic
Double consciousness
White carbon
Thin bones
Strontium -Day 7
Strontium
Here we are
Shape of a worm
An interval of maintenance
This day we remain immure
Time a current
Deciduous leaves
Here in the species latex
Breathe to annul
Rubbing stick parts
Stems
Shrill dance of organ matrimony
Here lie vestigial buds
Their radial testament to joy
Any of several unfoldings to light
Charlatans for the wreckage – quick medicines
Caught in the points
April 4, 2020
petrichor
I write this in the pouring rain, grateful for the temporary wash of virus from air. Petrichor comforting me on this day maintaining distance.
April 3, 2020
Sheltering
So grateful for the warmth and delight of #sheltering in these poems. To be held by the woods is nothing short of majesty. So grateful to Aileen Cassinetto for publishing these three poems.
April 2, 2020
periodicities : virtual reading series :
Poems are the little engine of resilience. Poems are really keeping me going right now.
Check out the whole series here, curated by Rob McLennan!
February 26, 2020
will i see you at AWP?
February 13, 2020
February 2, 2020
Tiny Spoon & Rogue Agent
[image error]Great cover art by Azalea Utesch
[image error]poem in the new Tiny Spoon!
[image error]New poem up at Rogue Agent!
http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/meleftherion
November 29, 2019
NO MACHINE WITHOUT A GHOST // 3 POEMS
“majestic orifice right there
alate lion in the yard”
3 Poems by Melissa Eleftherion
