Life emerges.
Lurid. Blistered.
Wrapped in
exiled scents
it emerges.
In the fractures
of eyes that feel
buried alive
it emerges
Just as the
huge claws of time
haul
across
the ground of
being,
it emerges
like a long
pause in a
conversation.
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.