Before the finned
dinosaurs of the frozen
deep
were interrupted
by the warships of man
they cast their love ballads
into the vast abyss, waiting,
with hearts
as wild and big as school
buses, for their own answer.
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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