Poetry

Link Meets the Light Dragon

You traded the life we
recovered, your enduring
self, your research, our
home, all for this weeping
dragon left in their stead.

There is an impostor among us

When it comes time to vote some-
one off the ship, I finish my will and tell myself
that space is as good of a coffin as the body
of a tree. That floating through an endless void
used to be my definition of heaven.

Three Poems

Choose, reader, between mind and sword:
Mind grants you beaches, serenity, and vacation anxiety.
Sword, politics and the blood song of football.
Walk the path I shoveled for you, hug
cubes dug from our private
shared earth, and build toward the portal
with an obsidian crown.