
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.
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.