“My Battery is Low and It’s Getting Dark,” by Dane Slutzky (Poetry ’21)

2021 poetry graduate Dane Slutzky was recently featured in the LEON Literary Review. Read an excerpt of “My Battery is Low and It’s Getting Dark” below:

My Battery is Low and It’s Getting Dark

 For Opportunity, the Mars Rover, 2004-2019

No human programmed
you to be poetic.
You didn’t craft

a sentence, but
sent data, after a
delay via satellite,

in an ontological
structure—battery:
low. Tau level: rising.

One last grainy
half-complete photo
of the sky, stars streaked

with lines. We offer
animal experience: hormones,
lactic acid, sorrow.                  

Read the rest of this poem here: http://leonliteraryreview.com/issue-6-dane-slutzky/