October Leaf 93 Poems by Teen/Young Adult Author Jean-Thomas Cullen

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71. ALIEN

velvet currents, silver bubbles
    in the deep
       below an amber water sky…
!To stand on a pearl dust planet
A million miles below a certain
            bobbing bow…
Alone
Among a billion fleeting shapes,
    Alien,—
      (darting silver daggers
       gaping rusty discs
          hacksaw wings…)
    Here is death a quiet dream
      (barracuda fins
          puffs of red dark
              devil teeth gleaming through)
       the end of nothing.
Alien, I —
among the shards of Eden!





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