by Jan Peters
Instant as
Movement and momentum –
Seeking alms from villagers,
Shirking the world for the
Sake of the Real – to
Surrender care for
Tomorrow, to
Make humble-true
Plain flesh.
Like those earliest
Wanderers whose
Pictographs litter the
Rocks of the range, they
Source food, remedy and
Narcotic from beast-plants
Edging the
Dead Man’s Journey.
Cool crevasse
Pocketing water to
Slake their drouth;
Blind-from-birth
Sight of white
Flash to
Flux their instant – in a
Split-second
Charge-pulse of
Neutron flight.
Copper-iron embodiment,
Soul-grit redemption seed:
Now
Unearthly isotope of verdant
Alamogordo glass.
Jan Peters is a British-born author residing in Germany. He has designed and taught a number of courses on poetry, creative nonfiction, and cultural studies during his time as a lecturer and researcher at universities in France, Germany and the United States. His work has appeared in Ranger Magazine, Wildfire Words, The Starbeck Orion and Sixty Odd Poets
