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These are poems inspired by Atlas Obscura articles and listening to a randomly selected music genre.

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Poetica Obscura: Mississippi Petrified Forest Poem

These poems are from a series inspired by reading Atlas Obscura stories while listening to a music genre randomly selected from my list. The poems were written immediately after reading, still while listening to the randomly chosen music.

I thought we would cut down a Christmas tree

but instead we started a rock collection. It was

the wrong time of year. By which I mean

I had not yet fast forwarded to however

many years it would take for you to turn to stone.

Not cold. Not unfeeling.
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The Trek to Bid Farewell to an Icelandic Glacier: Poem Inspired by Atlas Obscura

These poems are from a series inspired by reading Atlas Obscura stories while listening to a music genre randomly selected from my list. The poems were written immediately after reading, still while listening to the randomly chosen music. Please share and/ or click the “clap” button at the bottom if you enjoyed this.

The Trek to Bid Farewell to an Icelandic Glacier

reggae

Dear Future: At some time, you will not be covered in so much ice that it will deform you. I think we want to believe tha
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The Apollo Astronauts Signed Memorabilia in Quarantine: Poem Inspired by Atlas Obscura

These poems are from a series inspired by reading Atlas Obscura stories while listening to a music genre randomly selected from my list. The poems were written immediately after reading, still while listening to the randomly chosen music. Please share and/ or click the “clap” button at the bottom if you enjoyed this.

The Apollo Astronauts Signed Memorabilia in Quarantine — as Life Insurance

“old timey classical (Bach)”

Read my name. It’s carved on the only monument

on the moon. It means I
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One of Hawaiʻi’s Rarest Bogs Just Got a 16-Year Makeover : Poem Inspired by Atlas Obscura

These poems are from a series inspired by reading Atlas Obscura stories while listening to a music genre randomly selected from my list. The poems were written immediately after reading, still while listening to the randomly chosen music. Please share and/ or click the “clap” button at the bottom if you enjoyed this.

One of Hawaiʻi’s Rarest Bogs Just Got a 16-Year Makeover

I’m wearing the blue ghost perfume tonight, I’m invincible in the strobe lights, I’m invincible with my black light hand s
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The True Glory of Woodstock Is That They Managed to Clean Up So Well: Poem Inspired by Atlas…

These poems are from a series inspired by reading Atlas Obscura stories while listening to a music genre randomly selected from my list. The poems were written immediately after reading, still while listening to the randomly chosen music. Please share and/ or click the “clap” button at the bottom if you enjoyed this.

The True Glory of Woodstock Is That They Managed to Clean Up So Well

Motown

we bury, we bury

a spark of beauty

an organism

a voice cast out

we bury fire pits,

tire swin
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Come for the Controlled Flooding : Poem Inspired by Atlas Obscura

These poems are from a series inspired by reading Atlas Obscura stories while listening to a music genre randomly selected from my list. The poems were written immediately after reading, still while listening to the randomly chosen music. Please share and/ or click the “clap” button at the bottom if you enjoyed this.

Come for the Controlled Flooding

90’s alt rock

Step right up and see water diverted : this is how PT Barnum

may have pitched Jesus, had PT Barnum been a humble man.

I can’t e
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Poetica Obscura: Ibis Mummies and Barbershop Quartet Poem

These poems are from a series inspired by reading Atlas Obscura stories while listening to a music genre randomly selected from my list. The poems were written immediately after reading, still while listening to the randomly chosen music. Please share and/ or click the “clap” button at the bottom if you enjoyed this.

Ancient Egypt’s Ibis Mummies Were Probably Not Raised in Giant Sacred Ranches

We’re gonna give you a medley

of all these birdie throats

we’re gonna take you back

to the good
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Poetica Obscura: The Gobi Desert’s Chili Peppers / K-Pop

These poems are from a series inspired by reading Atlas Obscura stories while listening to a music genre randomly selected from my list. The poems were written immediately after reading, still while listening to the randomly chosen music. Please share and/ or click the “clap” button at the bottom if you enjoyed this.

The Gobi Desert Is a Red Sea of Chili Peppers

k-pop

I think of you

my mind goes red

and the desert smells like you.

I’m not a skank, I’m not a ho,

I’m a hot girl in hot sun