Nicholas Alexander Hayes
Ghost Lineage
A pluripotent shepherd moon
clears a path through ephemera
leaving traces but not bones.
Call infinite reds shift home.
Despite equilibrium of orbit,
lines of causality never
intersect in the pit.
Keep planetoids with meteors.
Look for iron flare
to scrape
membranes free of
fur and folly.
Chewing tanners collapse
wave function
as they keep hide supple.
Root to Nourish Love
Eyes become milky sea.
We tread particle waves,
waiting for a life raft.
Slow days sprout
as the pineal gland
stretches toward
an abandoned city
on a hill,
echoing with tuatara.
Nicholas Alexander Hayes is the author of
Amorphous Organics (SurVision Books),
Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales (BlazeVOX),
NIV: 39 & 27 (BlazeVOX), and
ThirdSexPot (Beard of Bees). His work has been featured in the anthologies
Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman and
Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism.
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