Why Mars Matters (to me)

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. A solar day on the Red Planet is approximately twenty-four hours, thirty-five minutes, and thirty-five seconds long. There are volcanoes, dust devils, and liquid water. Once every two years, Mars and Earth are closest to each other when they are on the same side of the Sun. Elon …

My Philly firsts

#1 sharing space #AWP22 with an SF legend #samuelrdelaney #Afrofuturism #2 viewed liberty’s crack #3 amazed at the power of objects: cups & saucers & spoons China Wedge (1994) by Mei-Ling Hom

Buds

New arrival buds bursting like the crack in my left wisdom tooth, ground down after winter.

Park(ed) Memory

someone or some (history) blanked abe’s eyes (out) in front of a building 3000 miles away from me now/home. he got shot (not too far) from me in now/new home. this/his bust isn’t exactly busted but those eyes – eerily bruised like justice or (us)