Email from Eternity by a Skeptic
I’ll wear this sunset like a bracelet
my body swollen past planetary proportions
herculean does not suffice as my first footfalls
span this entire star system two steps out
it’s a new way of seeing and doing
despite my growing galaxy-sized girth
there’s so much room to move around
I still feel like an ocean, aqueous always
spilling into the cosmos, I remain graceful
everything elemental flecks away
except my connection to terrestrial l’eau
concepts of distance and matter start to mean nothing
as I commune with nebulae in numbers
it’s not rising, it’s expansion
a knitting of the ethereal threads of consciousness
with an encompassing knowledge of the infinite
and every other life form that has made
that initial two step journey away
from the spinning glories of home
and the fretting that comes with
the insistence of a self.
Karen Lozinski
hails from New York City and lives in New Orleans. She's a writer, poet, artist, photographer, and musician who earned her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Her photographs and artwork have been in multiple shows and are widely published, and a selection of her music photos is included in Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game from the University of Mississippi Press. At work on a novel and poetry collection, her writing appears in Talon Review, Scapegoat Review, Red Ogre Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Red Noise Collective, and is forthcoming in Mantis.