minimal pair
labrys split electrum
to the cosmological constant,
spraying subatomic foam
over bare-assed satyrs,
cowering behind a clear
plastic tarp.
nymphs collapse wave
and function while Baba
Yaga’s unrepentant ash
buzzes.
**
Lonely Planet Boys
the iron in our bones aches
as Oumuamua tumbles
through the oort cloud
sowing the Akashic dust
of Klaus Nomi and Jobriath
on dark shores illuminated
by phytobacteria and
memory.
while carcinization
leaves our descendants
to scuttle on ragged claws
under the red winds
of crepuscular gods
legislating from
Martian ruins,
heroes’ voices
freeze and freeze again
on worlds without end.
**
nephele’s chitinous
chiton replaces the glimmer of
dried ooze with fungal colonies,
cemented with buccal mucus.
deer dicked boys
burrow into the soft rolls
of her exposed cumulous buttocks.
for restrictive rigor of protection
deer dicked boys ensconced in
vaporous flesh become acephalic.
their pizzles become
astral souls, obscured by divine
spittle.
**
in the chest cavity
of Saturn,
crabs grow on
stalactite stalks.
sulfur nimbuses surround
pairs of ragged claws
scuttling along
trenches.
time recedes
like gums to
reveal roots,
singular and
tangled.
Nicholas Alexander Hayes is a Chicago-based writer and educator. His recent publications include the poetry collection Lexicartographies (BlazeVox), the chapbook Amorphous Organics (SurVision), and the novella Bliss (Alien Buddha Press).
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