What Rough Beast | Poem for May 19, 2018

Jonathan Rentler
lucky dragon 5

with our nets lost
& course unknown
we sail forth

to the place
where sun goddesses
are pushed from their high
castles in heavens
falling like snow

she swims blood
streams & tear falls
riding Pacific currents

for if the sky’s
forbidden

she’ll make
her kingdom on earth
of ash & bone

 

 

Jonathan Rentler is the author of the chapbook Times Square Words# 1 (Yonkers International Press/Blurb 2017). His work has appeared in LOLA, Babbling of the Irrational, Fickle Muses, I-70, Ganymede, Unlikely Stories 2.0, and Midnight Muse.

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