Poem by Charles Frederickson; Graphic by Saknarin Chinayote
Sending shivers up spineless backbones
Taproot vertebrate will power won’t
Capsized fake-believe Promised Land sunken
Once upon certainties currently aren’t
Water cycle solar energy powered
Evaporation condensation precipitation infiltration runoff
Cooling oceans trickle causing cracks
Eroded sediment clogging peace-pipe calumets
Plate tectonics nudging cosmic lithosphere
Seismic abysmal fault lines drawn
Hateful dynamic breeding fearsome distrust
Tug of peaceful coexistence frayed
What lies beneath monolithic icebergs
Flaky cover-up hidden from view
Enigmatic sphinx rainbow halo refraction
Inverted pyramid winged oracle grounded
One-ninth of volume above surface
Compressed air bubble fizz trapped
Stark naked tip-off justifications exposed
Skinny dipper appendages frozen stiff
Bipolar slow unsure glacial meltdown
Split personality wedges aimless adrift
Liquid vapor solid cubes gas
Lunatic phases no-man’s floating island
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