sea foam mag
  • home
  • about
  • read
    • online journal
  • connect
    • submit
    • support
    • contact
  • home
  • about
  • read
    • online journal
  • connect
    • submit
    • support
    • contact

trappists by allison emily lee

7/19/2017

 
The world doesn’t end.
-Charles Simic
​I carefully explain                 survival in nuclear winter
I cannot tell you the codes               but the seed banks
are slowly emptying             fields of wheat flattened by
dust                 roads sinking into the desiccated aquifers
the earth’s mass shrinks daily         the elevator above
the desert       grows             and grows      and grows
a silver ribbon           that looks farther and farther away
as we climb the mesa            scaling tombs dyed with
bloody handprints                they too clawed against the
hardscrabble scorpion landscape   dreaming of cool
black space                worshipping an image of     blue
marbled satellites      circling a gentler sun                        gold
green              soft      our dry lips healed with water.
✱✱✱
Picture
Allison Emily Lee is a writer living in San Francisco. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from SEVERINE, Bop Dead City, Bird's Thumb and Lit.Cat among others. She is the founder and editor of Daphne Magazine. You can visit her online at allisonemilylee.com
    Picture

    Archives

    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016

    Categories

    All
    Ceramics
    Collage
    Design
    Essays
    Events
    Fashion
    Flash
    Hobbies
    Illustration
    Interviews
    Multimedia
    Music
    Nature
    Photography
    Poetry
    Publications & Resources
    Reviews
    Tweets
    Visual Art

facebook
instagram
​twitter