A Light Year of Nostalgia *
Lingering in the toy aisle
for decades
Just another toy's story
with no kid
and a concept of time
alien to us
which the wise don't call
forever
they just let gravity continue
to drag us along
into the black hole we call
the light, "run"
the call of those not yet at
the event horizon
yet having always headlined
our own matinee—
A consumer generation waiting
to buy-in.
- © Carson Pytell & Zebulon Huset 2022
Carson Pytell is a writer living outside Albany, New York, whose work appears in such venues as The Adirondack Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, Fourth River, and The Heartland Review. He serves as Assistant Poetry Editor of Coastal Shelf, and his most recent chapbooks are Tomorrow Everyday, Yesterday Too (Anxiety Press, 2022), and A Little Smaller Than the Final Quark (Bullshit Lit, 2022)
Zebulon Huset is a teacher, writer and photographer. His writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Meridian, Rattle, The Southern Review, Fence, Texas Review and Atlanta Review among others. He also publishes the writing prompt blog Notebooking Daily, and edits the literary journal Coastal Shelf.
* [This piece is from a collaborative poetry project called “Stanza Trades”. In the Stanza Trades series the collaborating poets write alternating stanzas.]
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