Then at once, the gravity is too much and I can’t escape.
Hurling through your atmosphere, burning up.
Crashing directly into your surface.
Creating a crater, large and open, lasting.
We make quite an impact on each other.
I send waves through Terra firma,
and we coalesce, for a time.
Spinning in orbit around a greater explanation.
The stars are all around us.
Over time, and time, and time and effort,
We hurtle towards the center of a collapsing star.
We cannot escape the catastrophe.
Our energy is pulled from us atom by atom.
And all that is left of my memory of you,
was the way you looked as I approached your serenity,
and breached your atmosphere.
How hot we became when we touched.
Forever.
A very special no thanks, to gravity, heat, and chaos. Good ingredients for planetary movement
40/40: Summer Poem Slam-a-bam is a project in which people have joined me for 40 days and 40 nights of on-demand poetry. They have submitted the concepts, ideas, and subjects; I’ve done the rest.
Welcome to my effort. Yes, as a great procrastinator, it requires great effort to stay focused on something productive that matters to me. I’ll find any old excuse to traipse from project to project, and I rarely end up at the place I started. I find this maddening, and exhaustive. So it is with high hopes, and a greater grasp of self-awareness, that I embark upon staying the course so to speak.
I enjoy writing. Be it blogs, fiction, poetry, etc. I love the craft and the act of creation, the art in and of itself, for it’s own sake and end. I am happy to be able to do it.
Some stats:
Born: March 1974
Education:
St.Francis de Sales, Charlestown MA
Don Bosco Technical High School, Boston MA
University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell MA
Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown MA
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
North Virginia Community College, Arlington VA
Harvard Extension School, Cambridge MA
Place of residence: Somewhere in the land of metro Boston. It’s vaguely familiar and becoming home more and more by the day, but when you come from “The Town” all else fails by comparison.
Favorite Color: I’m partial to all forms of blue.
Favorite Author: c’mon! don’t expect me to answer that, there are too many.
I enjoy memories of playing 80’s Atari better than playing any advanced gaming system that exists today.
Some day:
Hope to be recognized for my paper clip collection. As well as my 27 rejected applications to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailiey Clown college.
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