My new poem “Time for Sale” was just published in Sky Island Journal

A juvenile Allosaur
skeleton arched
as if to freeze its
soul in lethal leap,
a mammoth’s bones
slathered with
lacquer to gloss
over empty halls,
a 52 million-year-
old bird with
every feather intact
looking as if
at any moment
it might fly again,
or further back still
a mega stone panel
from Paleozoic seas
filled with trilobites
writhing in such
profusion it’s hard
to believe they
wouldn’t live forever—
it’s all for sale at
the Fossil Show—
just run your card
and buy a piece
of time to press
like a fetish
against your soft
flesh as you dream
of eternity.  

First published in Sky Island Journal,
https://www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issue8-spring2019/