Poetry
Moscovium
by Drew Pisarra
Why you of all people would make me speak
of the molecular level / would have
me muse in microscopic terms / the blink
of an eye / then presto / you are gone, save
the memory / save this memory / save
each atom of slummed encounter / that blink
of an eye meant more than a flutter / have
you undergone a moment where you speak,
this is all / but all it was is gone / I think
I take that back / short pause / I draw a blank
what scraps that remain have begun to sink
into their own remains / I will give thanks
you have become all but invisible
risky / envious / indivisible
Copyright © 2022 by Drew Pisarra
Featured Poet of the Month Drew Pisarra
A literary grantee of the Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation and Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators, Drew Pisarra is the author of You’re Pretty Gay (2021), a collection of short stories; Infinity Standing Up (2019), a collection of poetry; and The Strange Case of Nick M. (2021), a radio play commissioned by Imago Theatre. His favorite scifi writers include Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, and Doris Lessing.