horror poem

Dark Metre published my poem, After the Cosmologist's Death.

After the Cosmologist's Death
by John Hayes

A barren moon
gleams Earth's sky

reduced to ash
bones, muscle, flesh
rest quietly
in an amber urn

three pounds of grey
taken from an open skull
fondly placed in a mason jar
wait resurrection

amputated eyes
secure in a laboratory vault
stare into
their perpetual eclipse

preserved in freezer number 06
lungs, heart, liver,
vainly wait reticulation
with absent bones

a spinning rock
whirls about the sun

previously published in BareBone, 2006.

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