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Calciform Pools
by Logan Simonson
Runestone, volume 5
Runestone, volume 5
Calciform Pools
by Logan Simonson
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drool of planet
birthing, young
stalagmite body.
gruel of earth,
ancestral descriptors
of big richter and
tectonics, tenses
shifting, mineral like.
mirth isn’t invented,
malformed still,
licks the chalk stick-
man, stalactite body.
drips and drips and drips,
lime is new and wet,
boiled milk mixed,
water breaking
bubbling mud forefather
primeval, grisly.
misery isn’t invented
just stone
faces in rock
with lines
breaking
like the water.
in ripples,
old old, unfelt.
calx, in flux, calcium
serum injection
explosion
expulsion of
insects, there,
intersections.
interjections. later
though and languid,
language isn’t
isn’t invented.
Logan Simonson
Logan Simonson is in the last semester of his undergrad majoring in English at the University of Victoria. Logan is the author of two chapbooks. His poetry has previously appeared in Beside the Point and The Warren, as well as on stages with bill bissett and at Hullaballoo. In 2018 he founded Megalith Press. In 2019, he found six dollars.