Sighting

By Asher Baumrin

petroleum set ablaze / brilliant halo / and a pale falsetto / would dazzle your / dragged eye by / its fatuous tail / but it / thuds the floorboard / so quickens the foot / blazing downstairs / you burst / past your porch / past your parked  / car past / the ghostly pond / two colossal spheres / soft trusting blue / fecund luminaries / streaming in place / waiting for time / itself / a breeze of jokes / that raw fiefdom / of diction or / science led astray / by denying its / play / I could tell you / so much about / how I couldn’t move my body / through those blank prisms / how those two orbs generated / pupils to raze me with its look / how the bright blue cherry tree tops violently shook / with just revolt / the friend of the other / the blinding duo descends / no color at all but the whistling rain

Asher Baumrin (he/him) was raised on Lenape and Wappinger land, now Manhattan, and has poems published in Epigraph Magazine, S/WORD, The Syzygy Poetry Journal, and The Write Launch, among other places. He studied philosophy and law and now works as a public defender in The Bronx while raising two cats, Lola and Flynn, with his partner.