Magical Thinking

MAGICAL THINKING / Stars shape shift into starfish. / Whales breach through clouds. / A lamentation of swans floats / over the Wadi Rum / while ashen gods sink in hallowed swamps. / Heaven is here now. / The dead are quick now. / And your beautiful incandescent friend - / the man who saved you by / saving your child - / flickers under a downpour of jellyfish, / praying for forgiveness for / killing himself, / as grief rages against gravity / and burns down / every sun. /

For Rob, who gave my daughter wings. D. September, 2022.