By Larry D. Thacker
You’ve got twenty-four hours to wring out the story.
Maybe not that even. Something shinier could surface
out of that early morning Twitter abyss, from so deep
and lightless the thing might be unrecognizable
but for its stench of current interest, eyeless,
translucent hide capable of handling the depth pressures
that crush lesser beings, angler decoyed skin oddities
feeling into the murk as lures for the cycle hungry,
clueless creatures convinced they live to feed
the larger monsters, the leviathans never bothering
to ask such petty questions where no sound travels.
Larry D. Thacker’s poetry can be found in more than a hundred publications, including, Poets Reading the News, American Journal of Poetry, Poetry South, Spillway, Tower Poetry Society, Mad River Review, Mojave River Review, Town Creek Poetry, and Appalachian Heritage. His books include Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia and the poetry books, Voice Hunting, Memory Train, and Drifting in Awe. His MFA in poetry and fiction is earned from West Virginia Wesleyan College. Visit his website at www.larrydthacker.com.
Photo credit: Robert Couse-Baker via a Creative Commons license.
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