Teesta Review: A
Journal of Poetry, Volume 4, Number 1. May 2021. ISSN: 2581-7094
Asteroid: before and
after
Through the Oort cloud
I am observing, a
million times
a million miles a
second; the planets
forming ring systems; I
radiate through them,
micrometers of ice, a
slip
-stream of my passing, I
am
calm, watching
the wheels loosen,
gravity
suspending, the
cretaceous blue wall
slowly orbiting, floats
towards
white hot in troposphere
I shatter in serenity.
a million years later
the mineral layer
a radiation of me, thin
through Earth, a slip
of passing, of
bird-femur
frozen. Above
the topsoil wet,
the atmosphere roils
calm, an aster growing
a film of ice.
Paleo-Oceanography
Add grains of sand
until you have a black
beach
instead of a set/ship
it would be this—
possibly—
like the first
condensation
collecting into
geothermal basins.
An out-cropping of black
fragments/ shards
given hydrogen molecules
adhering to nothing.
Nothing is as
solid as magma. Currents
are
forming, the first
undersea volcanoes.
We chat over builders
tea
about
marine-palaeontology, pronouncing
it pale-ontology. We
walk past
the community pool. The
beginners dog-paddle
like Godzilla, moving
over the face of the
waters, deeper than
any constructing
hand.