by Tom Snarsky
I tore it up, I lemoned it with my bad
attitude toward everything, no cashew
juice, no withdrawals from the fog
bank, no little animals to exculpateΒ
you, no movement from the blue
crabs, one upside down one
looking dire, the littlest juror
to appear before a similarly
-clawed god, segmented legs
tracing language in the unmoist
air, priced per pound, tell the truth
enjoin the pincers, & the reply:
there was no one in the ocean
this cold, no one this blue
Tom Snarsky is the author of Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water, both from Ornithopter Press. His book A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems is forthcoming in 2025 from Animal Heart Press. He lives in the mountains of northwestern Virginia with his wife Kristi and their cats.
Twitter: @tomsnarsky,Β
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