Earthfall, by Alexander Etheridge

Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash

Being alone now means 
being crowded by ghosts
as the world plunges
with all its snow 
sand and empty seas
toward nothing but
bands of black
stars and cold black
vacancies
where our name 
meets the name of everything
that lives and 
dies in solitude
never seen by anything
and never known to the mind 
of Heaven

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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.