Being from, for its own sake,
couldn’t satiate. Many
reasons for an ash-cloud.
Our fields half-plowed,
we woke to magma
on our eyes, five lashes
leapt across your back.
Plotted course along
the line of the son.
Fox paws before horse.
In time you will
change your coat,
wish-weld your words.
The heard forgotten,
what endures is telling.
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Gabriel Johnson is a Bay Area native currently finishing his MFA in Poetry at Saint Mary’s College of California. He lives in Oakland, where he was born, where the coffee is delicious, and the oak trees plentiful.