Poems by Steven Croft
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View of Dorian from the International Space Station
by Steven Croft
From Canary Fall 2020
Steven lives on a barrier island off the coast of Georgia at the southern edge of the Altamaha River estuary on a property with virgin pines, live oaks, magnolias, and palm trees, all home to various species of very vocal birds and mostly furtive animals.
Wide veil of buzz saw blade light
as beauty, cottony spool of chaos,
looking down from weightlessness
through an unblinking eye
Into the unbearable weight of being
human when the sky grows like a god,
vomits raging venom as winds
cutting the sea into madness
Unraveling any landscape into a mise
en scene for disaster journalism:
stripped trees, entire towns
scattered, flattened
To trash dumps complete with circling,
scavenging gulls, an underbelly
of grief, searing pain of loss, lives
altered forever
But from heaven's vantage this floating
spiral quiet as a pearl in meditation
this porcelain symmetry over a sweep
of blue earth
© Steven Croft