FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: SHOOTING STARS Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Shooting Stars are invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, December 21st between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Friday, December 20, 2024

Jeffry Jensen


Star Shooting Star Squared


Where are the Manga books old man librarian?

My answer is channeled into space with feeling.

A reed quintet gathered in the reading room.

They came all the way from UCLA.

An emptiness crossed my crooked path.

A void of eloquence is the last thing in the sky.

I point toward the pancakes layering the Milky Way.

It was the morning for all mothers to return the legs to stand on.

There had to be a shoulder nearby to cry on.

The last leg in the universe was part of the ethereal story.

Cotton balls were sparkling in the night sky.

Speckled by a bad dream maybe falling into the bus lane.

Extinction has stretched across an investigator’s tongue.

There is no political shock big enough to rattle any Black Hole.

I am no bluebird on the wing, no ground squirrel dropping acorns.

I stopped at a rural roadside motel that has free Wifi.

There was a whoosh of Christmas cheer blanketing Forest Lawn.

I began picking off all the low hanging stars stuck outside of Palmdale.


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