Elegy for Mr. Spock by W. Todd Kaneko

Elegy for Mr. Spock

by W. Todd Kaneko

(published in Split Lip Magazine, August 2018)

 

The first time you died, your friends

searched the universe to bring you home

because it’s easy to abandon logic

for grief. My father died a year ago

and I’m still writing poems to bring him back

to me—the son of a man from outer space,

the alien child of an earthwoman—nothing

makes complete sense. On television

the phasers are set for stun because there’s

no such thing as death for major characters,

wh...