Challenger Deep, Hades Zone—
There are better maps of the moon and Mars.
Humans like superlatives—
Highest, lowest, longest.
Hubris.
We sit cross legged, barefoot—
watching for golden pocketwatches,
chipped china and worn shoes,
footprints sunk in silent ocean sand.
Susan Cossette lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Author of Peggy Sue Messed Up, she is a recipient of the University of Connecticut’s Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rust and Moth, The New Verse News, ONE ART, As it Ought to Be, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Amethyst Review, Crow & Cross Keys, Loch Raven Review, and in the anthologies Fast Fallen Women (Woodhall Press), Tuesdays at Curley’s (Yuganta Press), and After the Equinox.