Daniel Klawitter- A Poem

Heavy Elements

 

The lightening rips

A seam of sky

Wide open:

Slashing a gash

Through night’s

Wine dark manuscript.

 

And the stars are

The trillion eyes

Of an unseen god—

Each eye lit

Like a candle wick

To illuminate or ignite

 

The parchment 

Of our hearts:

Our weeping wax—

And sticky pitch—

All our combustible

Bits and parts

 

That come from

The same stuff of stars—

(Or so I’ve been told).

Formed in the furnace

Of a cosmic bonfire:

4.5 billion years old.

About The Author:

 

Among other things, Daniel has been an actor, the lead singer/lyricist for the Indie rock band Mining for Rain (www.miningforrain.com), and a union organizer for teachers and mental health care workers.  His poems have appeared widely in journals and magazines, both online and in print, in Australia, the UK, and the U.S.  He has also read his work on live public radio as a guest poet on The Poetry Show at krfc 88.9 in Ft. Collins, CO.  He is the author of the full-length poetry collection, A Poet Playing Doctor, from White Violet Press/Kelsay Books (Fall, 2015): http://www.amazon.com/Poet-Playing-Doctor-Daniel-Klawitter/dp/0692529241