POETRY

voyager

by Mark A. Fisher in Issue Ten, August 2023

are we not nomads in this midnight sea
lonely wanderers between the stars
floating through dreamscape nebulae
tempest tossed on gravity and tides

lonely wanderers between the stars
bottle messages thrown into waves
tempest tossed on gravity and tides
eternal drifters through inky skies

bottle messages thrown into waves
altered and flung out by starry death
eternal drifters through inky skies
transmuted by the flowing of time

altered and flung out by starry death
flowering into unknowable worlds
transmuted by the flowing of time
lives like falling star wishes flash

flowering into unknowable worlds
floating through dreamscape nebulae
lives like falling star wishes flash
are we not nomads in this midnight sea

© 2023 Mark A. Fisher

Mark A. Fisher

Mark A. Fisher is a writer, poet, and playwright living in Tehachapi, CA. His poetry has appeared in: Reliquiae, Silver Blade, Eccentric Orbits, and many other places. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his poem “papyrus” in 2016. His first chapbook, drifter, is available from Amazon. His poem “there are fossils” (originally published in Silver Blade) came in second in the 2020 Dwarf Stars Speculative Poetry Competition. His plays have appeared on California stages in Pine Mountain Club, Tehachapi, Bakersfield, and Hayward. He has also won cooking ribbons at the Kern County Fair.

Poetry by Mark A. Fisher
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