had a way of telling us
we could never have it better
in this light, in your liver,
the future became
unusually gentle
a machine deity
a bronze mirror
a moment of medicine
and voices and teachings
and sentience upon the
trillions of piles of earth.
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 USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more.
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