Animals. Redirect. Stars. Redirect.

When September pressure drops come to town

I hear galaxies trembling like earthquakes.

Redirect. Milky wavelets. Redirect. 

Earth is haloed by comet emojis.

Blobs pierce the mantle. It buckles like foil.

Ocean. Redirect. Midflight gusts. Action.

The passengers slosh and saw in the dark.

The smart engines detect smoke and a blast.

Children. Redirect. Cowling. Redirect.

Abraham and his telescope fuming 

in the void. We’re falling again. It’s time 

we explain the universe, the comas, 

oxygen, splintered jets, and metal blades.

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Lance Newman‘s poems have appeared in print and web magazines in the US, UK, and Australia, including Action/Spectacle, Blazevox, Dusie, otoliths, No Tell Motel, Sugar House Review, Stride, West Wind Review, and Zyzzyva. He has published two chapbooks: Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007) and 3by3by3 (Beard of Bees, 2010). His first full-length collection, Proverbs of Earth, was published by Spuyten Duyvil Press in 2025. Newman teaches literature, media, and writing at Westminster University in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, see http://www.lancenewman.org