Artifacts Rattle in the Closet of Academia the sum total is shrouded by the cleft sliced into one asteroid midway through the roller derby match at the center of a galaxy. feats define our cosmos. a space rich in frontiers should make room for a probe into whether a vacuum inside seminar rooms exists to be filled. one scholar asserted energy may not be birthed nor will it vanish. yet, an outlier weighs on balance. what set alight the first spark? a glow-up added enough sweep and reach to string out cosmic handiwork across a canvas of nothing. test if the sense of awe zips ahead of logic. our star hugs the planet, a goldilocks loops perfectly baked and never too frosty. atomic winds cannot strip a rock of green growth. the whirl of its iron-plated nickel core whips up the shield in which this flyer for useful design waltzes. still, it is not settled how the dust on a globe breathes. we reach for the coattails of infinity with further study into patterns. such a master class airs the way of sunbeams looked on as slow, but so bent on brilliance. the multicolored bang retells a vow to outshine every reflection on imitation gold oversold by the silvery moon.
Tonya Patrice Jordan is a poet, writer, and retired surgeon from New Jersey. She is the author of Knowing Sunshine, a collection of poems and one short story. Some of her poems can be read in The Halcyone Literary Review, Linden Avenue Literary Magazine, and Peace Poems, an anthology compiled for NJ Peace Action. One of her stories was a semifinalist in Ruminate Magazine’s 2015 short story contest. She recently completed her first science fiction novel. The first short screenplay she wrote is currently in post-production.
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