The God Zoo
Elvis
blimps above
the walrus shade.
Flying Back to England That First Time
Image: “Aerial II” by Scott Wiggerman. “Flying Back to England That First Time” was written by Rose Lennard for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, November 2023, and selected as the Artist’s Choice.
Replacement Friend
Imagine: you’re new in town. Long-haired, pierced-eared
in a button-down polo town. Stem-thin and gawky
where the preppy boys row crew each morning,
their shoulders like wide cantilever bridges.
A Language
Where I live, along the front range of the Rocky Mountains, the view to the west is always changing and it never fails to invite poetic attention.
Shroud of Light
By the time they killed Refaat, there was nothing new
about the rows of bodies rolled up in stark white shrouds,
surprisingly unbesmirched by dust or blood