A new poem by alumna and current Beebe Fellow Colleen Abel (poetry, ’04) appears online in the Superstition Review:
Anachronism
You carry nine planets in a watering can
We’ve explained about Pluto we even
watch a cartoon where the Big
Eight pariah their littlest
brother in a chorale of scowls
The planets sleep with us in the Big
Bed they bathe (Your book
tells you Saturn swollen with helium
would float in Earth water it does)
You say
You live on Earth your father
lives on Earth I live on Mars
and I feel it breathing the dust
…
Finish reading online at Superstition Review.