The way soft white wheat burns to death in the sun, orhow dried cherry skins unfurlwhen sucked by the coolmint of spring rain, I wish for youto bloom and let go, a faint whiffof sea air flapping on the clothesline
space
Two Worlds
There are two worlds on Earth, that you believe in, both nourishing sources of light-Suns without fire. So we recreate our patternsfrom scratch.
Curiosity
Look back in wonder“my 1st picture of Earth from Mars.”80 minutes after sunset on January 31, 2014. 99 million miles away. A speck of light in a dark and lonely corner.
Out of Nothing
My love for you is gravitationally balancedbut unstable. A system of huge swirling whirlpools endlessly recycled as repulsive forces that expand with constant acceleration, like starlight created from radiation My love for you is finite and ambiguous Unbounded and forever, decreasing with time, as the universe evolves, it weakens. Simplest of all known universes, my heart for you pounds with […]
A Canceled Appointment
I speak and my wordsdisrupt the universe. I touch and my fingerprintsearn marks in the earth that will outlast mountains.If you cancel, I will be born again. If you don’t, I will live forever.
my favorite cage
is made of porcelain white bars, surroundedby ringlets of fire, red hot and orangeas daisies consumed bythe summer sun. Those cornerless bars, alive and fierce as fractals, daring me to eclipse my freedom.
I Searched Back
Becoming many-celledfrom whitish to pale tan, consuming the soft crystalof my confiscated skin,the alien searched me. Like a probe sent into the outerhemispheres of my consciousness. I searched back. I wondered intoits yucca-sized eyes, and the room became calm, a cream-colored scent of smokerising as the holy spirit does for Baptistson Sunday mornings when they really need […]
A Perfect Stillness
There is a perfectstillness to these stories. The first instance of a gravitational wave. Anyways, is there anevent that has a bigger explosion of gravitationalwaves than two black holescolliding? Can three or more black holescollide at once? Would that be the sound of God,a ripple in Time – a wave of gravitythat only humans can hear? The […]
Even a Full Moon Needs Sunlight
Understand that even a solar burpis bigger than Planet Earth. And the corona shone. In 250 million yearsit will come around again, even though it is right here, all of the time. The vital Sun. Trapped in a beltor aurorae. Solar winds. Nothinglives without it. Even a full moon needs sunlight. George Cassidy Payne is a […]
400 Million Miles From the Sun
Beauty is located insidea 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 thecephalopods 400 millionmiles from the Sun. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, […]