by Eva Reyes
Explanation
To save the earth, you must save its fifteen duplicates.
The black-chained baggage, Time, will
domino your every damned
divine rotundity.
If monkeys in the first link
don’t figure out the zig-zag sequence of the buttons:
foundered foundling earths—
confused blinks of one cosmic eye.
You can’t afford to keep on being anchorites—
all won’t be well, all manner
up and down the chain will not
be well until you find
a string of Gilgameshes and Enkidus
to hold hands across the purple-coral
space-dimension sphere
instead of pods, one person per.
You’re all too fond of scimitars
and missiles and now
you’re caught-up-with, so
make valentines with the ideas:
You’re not merely not alone.
You’re not unique.
The whole is a concertina
played by un-see-able hands,
more than two.
Devon Miller-Duggan has published poems in Margie, The Antioch Review, Massachusetts Review, and Spillway. She teaches at the University of Delaware. Her books include Pinning the Bird to the Wall (Tres Chicas Books, 2008), Alphabet Year, (Wipf & Stock, 2017), The Slow Salute, Lithic Press Chapbook Competition Winner, 2018).
Eva Reyes is a novice artist and a freelance graphic designer! She is planning to attend art school in the near future to study graphic design. For now, she is designing the world one creation at a time!! Instagram: Short.stack1 Snap Chat: be_scared62 Twitter: @Cookienova3 Discord: PotatoSkinX