The Velut Luna poems Starseed Particles accelerate Never losing mass. Never losing energy. Cold fusion brilliance, created in a fog of clarity. Energy illuminated. Magic? Pounds of stardust traded for an ounce of perspective. We all love amusement parks. Dizzy and delirious, parked permanently on the ride. Dust to dust We’re made of stars disparate and dissonant. Day by day doubt festers, fenestrations of fear. And we damn deities, dredge demons. Cosmological chaos. Inherent ideological clashes birthed from cultural constructs. Idiomatic onslaught, shaped by societal mores, moored by millennia. Nihil sumus. Velut luna Spin the wheel Velut luna Fortune favors the bold Tried and true, trite and true. Therein lies the rub. Squeezing our infinitesimal selves into the lens of a long-forgotten dream. All roads lead you home. That’s as unconditional as it gets. Open Sometimes I forget to breathe. Creating a vacuum seal of self. Presenting that self to the world: an unwilling taciturn tacticality. The perceived enormity of our individual selves Lost to the ether. Lacking time. Creating space. Where? Relativistic Infinity Effusive energy Silent fusion Dominos without end A self-made loop A louped glance, askance. Golly gee. Great. Gutted by greed, Gouge our evil eyes, And hollow hearts. Our irrational ears. As we fester in finite fallacy. Outline where to start? where to begin? “We need an outline.” Oh? Oh. Of my life. Of the complication. The words swirl in a torrential hurricane inside. How to order chaos? “Of course.” It’s only a matter of course.
Jessica Skyfield is currently a teacher. She has been a scientist, a mother, will always be a student, and worn other hats, too. Her poems seek to bring light to our struggle with our awareness of our humanity: the juxtaposition of the smallness of ourselves when viewed universally and yet the large impact each of our individual actions can have.
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times at Artvilla.com ; You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author & https://poetrylifeandtimes.com See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)
