Moonfall, by Alexander Etheridge

Photo by Andy Holmes on Unsplash

Fly, fall,
plunge
into ruin,
into blue
doom, fly,
falling in dark
matter, away,
down the galaxy road
to a black hole.
Sink away, out
of yourself,
blue-red
and burning
moon, faithful
friend, even in
your calamity,
and in my own
and final
ruin.

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Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since 1998.  His poems have been featured in Scissors and Spackle, Ink Sac, Cerasus Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, Roi Faineant Press, and many others.  He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999, and a finalist for the Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize in 2022.