Beauty is located inside
a gravitational tango,
one where we become a
celibate partner with Jupiter;
where we are grateful just to drink
from
muddy waters,
clean as it was first drunk by the
cephalopods
400 million
miles from the Sun.
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, the Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Havana Times, the South China Morning Post, the Buffalo News, and more.