Beau In The Beyond . . .
By Karla Linn Merrifield
. . . has lost a lot of weight;
that sudden-death miracle diet
really worked. Enough fat
up in smoke for a half-dozen
Holocaust victims or Calvin models…is a box of coarse
calcium carbonate,
pale crumbs and nubs
of the death rattles’ echo
across bone-dusted ocean
that sudden-death miracle diet
really worked. Enough fat
up in smoke for a half-dozen
Holocaust victims or Calvin models…is a box of coarse
calcium carbonate,
pale crumbs and nubs
of the death rattles’ echo
across bone-dusted ocean
…is billions of complex molecules
reassembling into no-god knows what,
sailing light years toward Andromeda
like a deathless mariner following
dolphin stars, whale moons.
in memoriam Beau Cutts
Karla Linn Merrifield has had 800+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the 2019 full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. In early 2021, her Half a World of Kisses will be published by Truth Serum Press (Australia) under its new Lindauer Poets imprint. She is currently at work on a poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars; the book is slated to be published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY). Her Twitter handle is @LinnMerrifiel