We do not
need to know
why what happened
happened, just how.
Stray voltage jumped ship,
drawn deep by cocoa furnibbles.
Oases too, birthing
maltacious podded sweetberries.
Bright touches shaded
Colonial Park grove,
hills boiled short
through the red gate
Over Whitebridge, top down
Blue Mill. The gap betwixt those
sacrificial anodes is but one
plasmic path between us.
Michael Mandzik is a New Jersey poet, born, raised and now grandparenting in western Essex County. His work has appeared in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, The Journal of NJ Poets, Vox Poetica, the Stillwater Review, and several other journal publications that are now defunct. He contributed to the West Caldwell Public Library’s Peaceful Poetry Reading Series and performed in the Library’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast revival and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. He is currently working on a poetry chapbook.
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