Retrograde
Like cratered Mercury
ringed by mile-high mountains
and wide depressions
you travel backwards
three times each year,
screw up schedules,
prove your small planet
pull on my life.
I am under your influence.
Unstable, too close to the sun,
you rotate away from me,
burning.
- © Karen Pierce Gonzalez 2022
Karen Pierce Gonzalez lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Blue Pepper. Her mini-chap True North (Origami Poetry Project) will appear July 2022, and her chapbook Coyote in the basket of my ribs (Alabaster Leaves) will appear February 2023.
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